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Greg Laurie - The Excuses Of A World Changer

September 5, 2025 | S E | 27:40

Greg Laurie - The Excuses Of A World Changer
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - The Excuses Of A World Changer | September 5, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg laurie: and i think a lot of times we're
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  • Afraid if we engage a nonbeliever with the gospel,
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  • That they'll ask us a hard question we don't
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  • Have the answer to, "i don't have all the answers."
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  • So what?
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  • Just get out there and share your faith.
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  • If you don't have an answer go back and study more and you'll
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  • Have more answers next time for sure, but don't let that stop
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  • You from telling others about jesus.
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  • "well i don't know if i can prove the existence of god."
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  • My job is not to prove the existence of god, my job is to
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  • Proclaim the good news of the gospel.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ this is the day the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: well let's grab our bibles and turn to two
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  • Passages today.
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  • Hebrews chapter 11 and exodus chapter 3, hebrews 11 and exodus
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  • 3 and the title of my message is 'the excuses of a world
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  • Changer.' temptation, here's the problem with temptation.
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  • It's so dog on tempting.
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  • You know, the devil is really good at what he does.
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  • He knows how to package his wears, he knows how to make bad
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  • Things look good, and actually how to make good things look
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  • Bad, and when temptation comes, man, you know it,
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  • And it's strong, and you feel the pressure.
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  • Maybe that's why writer oscar wilde once said, "i can resist
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  • Anything but temptation."
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  • But here's the good news, "god," according to 1 corinthians
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  • 10:13, "will never let us be tempted above our capacity to
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  • Resist, but will with the temptation make a way of escape
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  • That you may be able to bear it."
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  • Now look, i don't know about you, but i know for me, if i
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  • Even take a little taste, that's where the problem begins.
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  • And by then i mean, let's use dessert as an example of
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  • Temptation.
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  • And they even will say, "can i tempt you with a dessert?"
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  • It's funny they'll use the word tempt, and i always say,
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  • No, no dessert.
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  • My wife will say, "well, what do you have?"
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  • I say, no, don't do it.
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  • She did this the other night, "what do you have?"
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  • Don't ask what they have.
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  • And then she said, "we'll just have one bite."
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  • And then i said, "that's what eve said to adam okay?"
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  • So they bring the dessert with the five forks and all that.
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  • If i don't have a taste of it, it's a non-issue but the moment
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  • I taste it, party over, i'm engaged, you know how that goes.
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  • So we've all been tempted not just by dessert, but by serious
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  • Things, by sinful things that might be a temptation to be
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  • Lustful, a temptation to be prideful, a temptation to be
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  • Hateful but whatever it is, what a great thing it is when we,
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  • Pass the test and by that i mean we say, "no" to it and honestly,
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  • When you're saying no, it's not easy, is it?
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  • "oh, i really want it, but no, i'm not gonna do it."
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  • But then the blessing comes because james tells us, "blessed
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  • Is the man who endures temptation: for when he is
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  • Tried, he'll receive the crown of life."
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  • And that word, "blessed" could be interchanged with the word
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  • "happy," "happy is the man or the woman that says no to
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  • Temptation."
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  • If you wanna be a world changer, you need to learn how to say,
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  • "yes" to god and how to say, "no" to the devil and how to
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  • Refuse certain things.
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  • And that's what we're gonna look at now the life of moses.
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  • Hebrews chapter 11, "it was by faith," verse 24, "that moses,
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  • When he grew up, refused to be called as the son
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  • Of pharaoh's daughter.
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  • He chose to share the oppression of god's people instead of the
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  • Fleeting pleasures of sin.
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  • He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of the
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  • Messiah than own the treasures of egypt, for he was looking
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  • Ahead to his great reward," that god would give him.
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  • Interesting phrase, better to suffer for the sake of the
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  • Messiah, who had not yet come yet, than to own the treasures
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  • Of egypt and that is such an accurate description
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  • Of what was going on.
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  • For moses, the world was his oyster.
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  • He could have anything he want.
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  • He had affluence, and influence, the most beautiful clothing, the
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  • Best meals, the finest education and if he had played his cards
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  • Right, he might have been the most important man on the face
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  • Of the earth but underneath that beautiful apparel, beat the
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  • Heart of a jew and his fellow hebrews were suffering under the
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  • Cruel taskmasters of egypt, and he cared for his fellow jews and
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  • For him, he could not stay in this place that he was, he had
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  • To leave the palace and verse 24, "by faith when he grew up,
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  • He refused to be treated as a son of pharaoh's daughter."
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  • He grew up.
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  • I heard that expression a lot when i was growing up.
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  • Teachers would say it to me other people would say, "greg
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  • Laurie, will you just grow up?"
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  • 'cause i was always a prankster, i was always getting
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  • Into trouble.
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  • I wore diapers until i was 30.
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  • Never shared that before, that was a joke by the way.
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  • Just wanted to see if you're listening but the idea is, you
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  • Know, i wasn't growing up as quickly as people wanted me to,
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  • And some people need to grow up.
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  • Now this of course is talking about moses just getting older,
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  • But it's also about maturing.
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  • We need to grow up spiritually and one of the indications of
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  • Spiritual growth, is when we start thinking about others more
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  • Than ourselves.
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  • If moses just thought of himself, he'd say, "hey man, i'm
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  • Living the life of a king, i'm gonna just stay right here."
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  • But no, others were suffering and he thought, i've gotta do
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  • Something to alleviate their suffering.
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  • So that brings us to point number one.
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  • He refused a lot of things.
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  • What did he refuse?
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  • Number one, he refused a position of power in egypt.
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  • He refused a position of power in egypt.
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  • Offering commentary in the life of moses, young stephen said, in
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  • Act 7:22, "moses was educated in the learning of the egyptians."
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  • But see, god did not want him to be moses the egyptian scholar,
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  • Or moses the egyptian statesman rather, god wanted him to be
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  • Moses the man of god and by the way, that's what the lord wants
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  • From each of us as well.
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  • Number two, moses refused the pleasures of egypt, the
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  • Pleasures of egypt.
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  • For him to stay in this place of power would've been sinful.
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  • Now, god has used other men and women in the quarters of power
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  • To influence leaders.
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  • Of course, we know daniel was taken along with the other
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  • Israelites into captivity of babylon, but he had great
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  • Influence on king nebuchadnezzar.
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  • In fact, babylon played a role in the conversion of king
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  • Nebuchadnezzar, some people don't know that nebuchadnezzar
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  • The king became a believer.
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  • Daniel also influenced darius, belshazzar too but belshazzar
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  • Did not listen.
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  • Then we know joseph had great influence on the pharaoh and
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  • Esther because of her influence with the king, excuse me, in the
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  • Palace, was able to save her entire nation.
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  • So the point of this is, is that we have to ask ourselves, "lord
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  • Where do you want me to be?"
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  • He might put you in a corridor of power.
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  • He might have you laboring in relative obscurity but wherever
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  • You are, you need to use your influence for his glory and ask
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  • Yourself the question, "am i gonna enjoy life in my own way,
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  • Or am i going to employ my life serving god and others?"
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  • What motivated moses?
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  • Answer, he had a heavenly perspective.
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  • He had a heavenly perspective.
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  • Look at hebrews 11, verse 26.
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  • "he was looking ahead to the great reward
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  • That god would give him."
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  • He wasn't even sure what it was but he knew
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  • Better things were to come.
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  • He kept looking ahead but then he went and made a big mess
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  • Of things.
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  • He had the right idea, but he certainly went about it in the
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  • Wrong way.
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  • You know the story he saw an egyptian slave driver
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  • Mistreating a jew.
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  • So moses looked to the right, he looked to the left
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  • And he killed the egyptian.
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  • Then he hid him in the sand which is never a good place to
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  • Hide a body because the wind blows and soon everyone knows
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  • What happened and pharaoh found out and said, "i'm gonna have
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  • Moses executed" so moses headed for the hills and he decided,
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  • "well that's it, i've blown my chances i'll just live a life
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  • In obscurity now."
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  • And he found a family that took him in, he married one of the
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  • Daughters and he became a shepherd.
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  • And by the way, back in those days in the estimation of the
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  • Egyptians, to be a shepherd was the lowliest job you could have.
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  • So he went from the prince in the palace to a common laboring
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  • Shepherd, probably had an early retirement.
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  • Thought, "well that's it for me," but he wasn't quite
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  • Prepared for what was about to happen because he was gonna
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  • Encounter a bush that did not stop burning, and he was gonna
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  • Come face-to-face with a god, of second chances.
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  • Look at exodus chapter 3, starting in verse 1.
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  • "one day moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law,
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  • Jethro, the priest of midian.
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  • He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to sinai,
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  • The mountain of god.
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  • Suddenly the angel of the lord appeared to him as a blazing
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  • Fire in a bush.
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  • Moses was amazed because the bush was engulfed in flames,
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  • It didn't burn up.
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  • Moses said to himself, 'amazing.
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  • Why isn't this bush burning up?
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  • I need to go over and see this.'
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  • And then the lord when saw he had caught the attention
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  • Of moses, called to him from the bush,
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  • 'moses! moses!'
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  • 'here i am! moses replied.
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  • God said, 'do not come any closer,'
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  • 'take off your sandals, for you're standing on holy ground.'
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • So god proceeds to tell moses that he is aware of the
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  • Suffering of the jewish people and that god is going to now
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  • Call moses to lead those people out of their bondage.
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  • Understand, moses, well he's an old dude now.
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  • He's 80 years old.
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  • He spent 40 years in the court of pharaoh, now 40 years in the
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  • Wilderness he is well in to retirement, you know he says,
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  • "hey man, i worked hard, now i'm gonna kick back."
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  • I meet people that retired, "yeah i'm retired eh, just work
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  • To take the old pension."
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  • What are you gonna do? "golf."
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  • What else? "fish."
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  • What else? "sleep."
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  • What else? "fish."
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  • What else?
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  • "try to golf and fish simultaneously."
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  • Get outta your lazy boy and get busy for the kingdom of god,
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  • God still has a plan for your life.
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  • Don't tell me you're too old to serve the lord, moses was 80.
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  • Don't tell me you're too young to serve the lord,
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  • Jeremiah was but a teenager.
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  • My point to you is, god wants to use all of us
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  • At every stage of our life.
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  • Listen to what god says to moses, exodus 3, "i am the god
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  • Of your father--the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob."
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  • Now we hear that it sounds very impressive, abraham, isaac,
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  • And jacob, right?
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  • But we-- let's think about it for a moment 'cause in the
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  • 'world changer series' we've seen the flaws of everyone that
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  • God used.
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  • These people are not in the heroes hall of faith because
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  • They were great people, they're in the heroes hall of faith
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  • Because they had faith in a great god.
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  • This hall of faith of hebrews 11 has filled a lot of interesting
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  • Characters, all with serious problems.
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  • Abraham, the father of faith, had flaws and lapses of faith in
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  • Line on multiple occasions.
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  • Jacob, oh he was legendary for his deception and manipulation.
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  • Isaac favored one son over another and didn't really listen
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  • To the lord.
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  • So really when god says to moses, "i am the god of abraham,
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  • Isaac, and jacob," what he is saying is, "i am the god of
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  • Flawed people, i am the god of people that make mistakes."
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  • Really what the lord is saying is, "i am the god
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  • Of second chances."
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  • And why would he say that to moses?
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  • Because moses needed a second chance, 'cause he killed a man
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  • And he had spent 40 years thinking he'd probably never do
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  • Anything for the lord but the lord said, "buddy,
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  • I'm recommissioning you.
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  • So park the winnebago and let's get busy.
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  • We've got work to do and we're gonna go and deliver a nation
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  • From the power of egypt 'cause i'm aware of all that my people
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  • Are going through."
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  • The lord says that "he has heard and he has seen the affliction
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  • That the people are facing, and moses, i'm calling you to lead
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  • Them out."
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  • Now, what moses should have done was fall on his face and say,
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  • "thank you lord for a second chance, i'm ready to go."
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  • But what moses does instead is, offer up a bunch of excuses as
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  • To why he can't serve the lord.
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  • I bring this up because we all know we're supposed
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  • To serve the lord.
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  • We all know that god has a plan for each of us.
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  • We all know that god has given us gifts, and talents, and
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  • Abilities, and resources to use for his glory but so often many
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  • Of us are not doing it.
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  • And why are we not doing it?
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  • We offer up excuses, never reasons.
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  • There's no good reason to not serve the lord but excuses, as
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  • We look at the excuses of moses, you might find yourself in one
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  • Of them.
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  • This is why i called the message
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  • 'the excuses of a world changer.'
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  • Greg: hey, everybody, greg laurie here with some thoughts
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  • About anxiety.
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  • Well, there's a lot of things to be anxious about right now,
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  • Aren't there?
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  • All the turmoil in our country, all the fighting,
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  • Which hasn't gotten better, it's actually gotten worse.
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  • Can i make a couple of recommendations?
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  • Maybe don't watch the news for hours on end.
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  • Maybe don't spend all your time on twitter and fighting with
  • 00:14:38.009 --> 00:14:42.480
  • People on social media, et cetera, et cetera.
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  • And i'm not saying don't be uninformed,
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  • Because we need to be aware of what's going on so we know how
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  • To pray intelligently, but take time to fill your mind
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  • With the word of god.
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  • Take time to focus on your relationship with god.
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  • We all know this verse very well that says,
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  • "don't worry about anything.
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  • Pray about everything.
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  • And the peace of god will guard your heart and mind
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  • In christ jesus."
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  • Scripture also says, "thou will keep him in perfect peace
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  • Whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusteth in thee."
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  • So, if you find yourself in turmoil and anguish
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  • And if you find yourself filled with anxiety,
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  • Put your mind on the lord.
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  • Turn your thoughts toward the lord.
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  • Fill your life with the word of god,
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  • With worship music, with good bible teaching.
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  • We have a podcast, and there's a lot of great things out there,
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  • But we have a podcast you can listen to.
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  • But listen, look to jesus right now,
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  • And let's keep praying for our nation that god's will will be
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  • Done, but let's also pray that he will give us personal peace.
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  • Greg: excuse number one, exodus 3:11, "i don't deserve
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  • To be used by god."
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  • He says, "who am i to appear before pharaoh,' moses asked
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  • God, 'how can you expect me to lead the israelites
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  • Out of egypt?'"
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  • Now you know in a way, moses had a point.
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  • I mean, would you have picked moses if you were god?
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  • Why not pick some young guy?
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  • Moses had a lot of baggage.
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  • You know, he had made a lot of mistakes in a way he was sort of
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  • A has been, a failure, even an embarrassment why use him?
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  • Use somebody you never know.
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  • God says, "i want moses 'cause i've been whipping this boy into
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  • Shape for a long time, and he is ready to rumble,
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  • This is my man."
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  • You know it seems as though god goes out of his way to pick the
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  • Most unexpected people.
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  • God wants to reach the nation of nineveh so the lord calls jonah,
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  • Listen, jonah was a racist.
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  • You say, "what do you mean?"
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  • He hated the ninevites?
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  • He wanted god to kill the ninevites.
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  • God said, "you're the perfect guy to go preach
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  • To the ninevites."
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  • "i don't wanna go."
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  • "yeah, whatever, let's go."
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  • And a great revival broke out.
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  • And then god wanted a courageous man to lead israel out of the
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  • Bondage of the midianites or enemies, so he chooses gideon,
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  • Who happens to be hiding from his enemy when the angel appears
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  • To him hiding behind a wall, sort of threshing the wheat, and
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  • An angel appears and says, "hey gideon, you mighty man of
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  • Courage, the lord is with you."
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  • Gideon's like, "is there another gideon here?
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  • What you mean moi, me?"
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  • "yeah, you."
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  • Well that doesn't make any sense, if there's anything
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  • Gideon was not at that moment, it was a mighty man of courage.
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  • But listen to this, god doesn't see you for what you are, he
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  • Sees you for what you can become.
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  • He sees potential.
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  • It is said that the great master artist michelangelo, was looking
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  • At a big slab of marble, and he said, "i wanna liberate an angel
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  • From that marble."
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  • See, the great artist, michelangelo could just look at
  • 00:17:59.010 --> 00:18:01.646
  • A slate of stone and see what would come from it, and god
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  • Looks at you and says, "i know what you can be, you don't know
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  • It yet but i know, i know what i can make you into.
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  • You'll be a mighty man of god.
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  • You'll be a mighty woman of god.
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  • Don't care if you're young or you're old or you think you're
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  • Qualified, i will make you into that."
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  • So god is saying, "moses, i've called you to be this man."
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  • Number two, moses says, "well, i don't have all the answers,
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  • Exodus 3.
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  • So you have to look at that, verse 13, excuse me, moses
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  • Protested, "if i go to the people and tell them the god of
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  • Your ancestors has sent me to you, they won't believe me.
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  • They'll ask, 'which god are you talking about
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  • And what is his name?
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  • Then what would i tell 'em?'" god says, "well you just tell
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  • 'em, i am who i am?"
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  • Just say, "the i am has sent me to you."
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  • Funny thing, moses says, "who am i?"
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  • God says, "i am that i am."
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  • Stop talking about yourself.
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  • Stop thinking about yourself.
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  • You just tell 'em, "i am has sent you.
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  • Moses, it's not about you, it's about me."
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  • You know, i think a lot of times we're afraid if we engage a
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  • Nonbeliever with the gospel, that they'll ask us a hard
  • 00:19:12.517 --> 00:19:15.019
  • Question we don't have the answer to.
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  • "well, i don't have all the answers."
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  • So what, just get out there and share your faith.
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  • If you don't have an answer, go back and study more and you'll
  • 00:19:23.594 --> 00:19:25.696
  • Have more answers next time for sure.
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  • But don't let that stop you from telling others about jesus.
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  • "well i don't know if i can prove the existence of god."
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  • My job is not to prove the existence of god, my job is to
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  • Proclaim the good news of the gospel.
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  • You say, "well what if they don't believe in the bible?
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  • Can i still quote it?"
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  • Are you kidding?
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  • God says of his word that "it's alive and powerful and sharper
  • 00:19:47.718 --> 00:19:51.255
  • Than any two edged sword."
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  • If they believe it or not it is what it is.
  • 00:19:53.591 --> 00:19:56.327
  • So, moses continues on with this plethora of excuses.
  • 00:19:56.327 --> 00:20:02.099
  • I just wanted to use the word plethora in a sentence.
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  • Excuse number three, the people won't believe me, that's in
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  • Exodus 4.
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  • The people won't believe me, exodus 4 verse 1.
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  • Moses protested again, "look, they won't believe me, they
  • 00:20:14.478 --> 00:20:19.250
  • Won't do what i tell them, they'll just say, 'the lord
  • 00:20:19.250 --> 00:20:20.785
  • Never appeared to you.'" the lord says, "what do
  • 00:20:20.785 --> 00:20:22.119
  • You have there in your hand?"
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  • Moses said, "well, only a shepherd staff."
  • 00:20:23.454 --> 00:20:24.789
  • "throw it to the ground," the lord said.
  • 00:20:24.789 --> 00:20:26.724
  • So moses threw it to the ground and it became a snake.
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  • Moses was terrified and he turned and ran away."
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  • This is funny to me.
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  • I just--he throwed it, ah runs and it's a snake,
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  • Probably a cobra.
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  • The lord said, "take hold of the snake.
  • 00:20:38.836 --> 00:20:41.272
  • And he reached out and grabbed it and it became
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  • A shepherd staff again."
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  • Exodus 4:5 "perform this sign and they'll believe you, the
  • 00:20:45.743 --> 00:20:48.646
  • Lord told him.
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  • And they'll realize that the lord, the god of their
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  • Ancestors, the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob
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  • Has appeared to you."
  • 00:20:55.319 --> 00:20:57.655
  • Now, this is crazy because first of all, you never grab a snake
  • 00:20:57.655 --> 00:21:01.425
  • By the tail, because they'll turn around and bite you
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  • I've told you that before.
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  • God says, "grab the snake." why?
  • 00:21:05.896 --> 00:21:08.299
  • The snake was a symbol of egypt, in particular the cobra.
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  • You can look at the--not the car, the snake.
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  • You can look at the antiquities of egypt today and see that
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  • Cobra there symbolizing the pharaoh in particular,
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  • And the nation of egypt.
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  • So here's what god is saying, "i'm more powerful than the
  • 00:21:24.282 --> 00:21:27.118
  • Snake, i'm more powerful than egypt, i'm more powerful
  • 00:21:27.118 --> 00:21:31.555
  • Than pharaoh so pick it up."
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  • A modern vernacular might be, take the tiger by the tail.
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  • Don't be intimidated, face your fears and say, "the lord is
  • 00:21:38.729 --> 00:21:43.067
  • Greater than all of my fears."
  • 00:21:43.067 --> 00:21:45.002
  • And that's what moses did, he picked it up because he was
  • 00:21:45.002 --> 00:21:47.138
  • Being commissioned by god and we have been commissioned as well
  • 00:21:47.138 --> 00:21:51.909
  • By the lord to represent christ to a pagan culture.
  • 00:21:51.909 --> 00:21:56.814
  • Moses was called to the pagan culture of egypt, we're called
  • 00:21:56.814 --> 00:22:00.384
  • To the pagan culture of the united states of america and to
  • 00:22:00.384 --> 00:22:04.755
  • The world, and when i say pagan, i don't mean that in a mean way,
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  • I mean it in a descriptive way.
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  • When i use the word pagan, i'm talking about people that
  • 00:22:11.429 --> 00:22:14.699
  • Believe in anything and everything, but the right thing.
  • 00:22:14.699 --> 00:22:19.904
  • Look at excuse number four.
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  • Moses says, "i'm not a good speaker."
  • 00:22:21.472 --> 00:22:23.841
  • Verse 10, "o lord, i'm clumsy with words,
  • 00:22:23.841 --> 00:22:27.144
  • I'm not a good speaker."
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  • Listen to this, god is not looking for good speakers,
  • 00:22:29.647 --> 00:22:32.850
  • He's looking for obedient servants.
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  • You don't have to be a good speaker, you just need to be
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  • Someone who obeys god he'll give you the words because god is
  • 00:22:38.756 --> 00:22:43.160
  • More interested in character than charisma you see.
  • 00:22:43.160 --> 00:22:48.632
  • And look, i'm not a good speaker.
  • 00:22:48.632 --> 00:22:50.935
  • I don't think i am, but i have a great message and i'm confident
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  • In my message and that's why i proclaim it and you have that
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  • Same message, and we all need to get it out.
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  • By the way, by that applause, i'm assuming you're affirming
  • 00:23:02.380 --> 00:23:04.915
  • That i'm not a good speaker so thanks for that.
  • 00:23:04.915 --> 00:23:09.687
  • No, seriously you know meant it, but it's true.
  • 00:23:09.687 --> 00:23:14.959
  • Okay last excuse, number five, i'm not qualified.
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  • I'm not qualified.
  • 00:23:19.130 --> 00:23:20.564
  • Verse 13, "lord, please send by the hand of whomever else you
  • 00:23:20.564 --> 00:23:24.368
  • Will send."
  • 00:23:24.368 --> 00:23:25.870
  • That's a fancy way of saying, "get someone else to do it.
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  • Here i am lord send him, not me."
  • 00:23:29.407 --> 00:23:34.078
  • And then he actually suggests his brother, aaron.
  • 00:23:34.078 --> 00:23:36.781
  • "you know aaron, my bro, he is a--this guy can talk man.
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  • He has the gift of gab use him."
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  • Lord says, "i don't want aaron, i want you."
  • 00:23:43.754 --> 00:23:46.390
  • "well i can't do it i have a speech impediment, i stumble
  • 00:23:46.390 --> 00:23:49.560
  • Over my words, i stutter, i, i i i i i i i j j j.
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  • Just not the guy."
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  • "yeah, that's why i want you, stop with the excuses, they're
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  • Not legit you have no reason why you can't be used of god, you
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  • Only have lame excuses."
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  • The lord says, "i want you to do it," say, "lord, thank you,
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  • I'll do it, and i know you will help me to do it."
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  • And ultimately, moses agreed and did what the
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  • Lord called him to do.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and you have seen
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  • Your need for jesus christ.
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  • Jesus christ is the son of god, who came from heaven
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  • To this earth.
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  • He was born in a manger, he died in a cross, he rose again
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  • From the dead.
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  • Why?
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  • Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
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  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion, i don't wanna be a
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  • Religious person i don't think you wanna be one either,
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  • I'm talking about relationship with god.
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  • Jesus who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
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  • And he knocks and he says, "if you'll hear his voice, and open
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  • The door, he will come in.
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  • Question, have you asked jesus christ to come
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  • And live inside of you?
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  • You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
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  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle of the
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  • Night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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  • I'm sure you would.
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  • And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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  • You will know.
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  • And if you don't know, maybe he has not come in yet.
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  • He's just a prayer away.
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  • All you need to do is say, "jesus, i want this relationship
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  • With you, i want you to forgive me of my sin, i want to go to
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  • Heaven when i die."
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  • Would you like to do that?
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  • Would you like christ to come into your life?
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  • If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me.
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  • You can pray it out loud, or you can pray it in the quietness of
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  • Your heart.
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  • But this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ to be
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  • Your savior and lord, pray this with me now.
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  • "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner, but i know that you're
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  • The savior, who died on the cross for my sin and rose again
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  • From the dead, now come into my life.
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  • I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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  • Thank you, for hearing this prayer and answering this
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  • Prayer, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If so, i want you to know in the authority of scripture that
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  • Christ himself has come to live inside of you, and i would love
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  • To send to you at no charge, the new believers bible.
  • 00:26:31.789 --> 00:26:35.960
  • It's a very friendly translation of the new testament,
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  • You'll find very understandable
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  • And it's filled with hundreds of notes that i
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  • Wrote that will encourage you in this commitment you've just made
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  • To follow jesus, and let me be the first to say to you,
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  • Congratulations, and welcome to the family of god.
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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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