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Greg Laurie - The Excuses of a World Changer

January 20, 2025 | S25:E17

Greg Laurie - The Excuses of a World Changer
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - The Excuses of a World Changer | January 20, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: you know, i think a lot of times we're afraid if
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  • We engage a non-believer with the gospel that they'll ask
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  • Us a hard question we don't have the answer to.
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  • I don't have all the answers, 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.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: well, let's grab our bibles and turn to hebrews 11
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  • And exodus 3.
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  • And the title of my message is
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  • "the excuses of a world changer."
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  • Temptation--here's the problem with temptation:
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  • It's so doggone 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 wares.
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  • He knows how to make bad things look good and actually, how to
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  • Make good things look bad.
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  • And when temptation comes, man, you know it, and it's strong,
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  • 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 that i mean, let's use dessert as an example of
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  • Temptation, and they even will say, "can i tempt you with
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  • A dessert?"
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  • It's funny they'll use the word "tempt," and i always say, "no,
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  • No dessert," my wife will say, "well, what do you have?"
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  • I say, "no, don't do it," she did this the other night, "what
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  • Do you have?"
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  • Don't ask what they have, and then she said, "we'll just have
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  • One bite," and then i said, "that's what eve said to
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  • 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.
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  • It might be a temptation to be lustful, a temptation to be
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  • Prideful, a temptation to be hateful, but whatever it is,
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  • What a great thing it is when we pass the test, and by that i
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  • Mean, we say no to it.
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  • And honestly, when you're saying no, it's not easy, is it?
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  • Oh, i really want to, but no, i'm not gonna do it, but then
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  • The blessing comes, because james tells us: "blessed is the
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  • Man who endures temptation; for when he is tried, he'll receive
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  • 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
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  • To temptation.
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  • If you wanna be a world changer, you need to learn how to say yes
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  • To god and how to say no to the devil, and how to refuse
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  • 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.
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  • "it was by faith," verse 24, "that moses, when he grew up,
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  • Refused to be treated as the son of pharaoh's daughter.
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  • He chose to suffer the oppression of god's people
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  • Instead of the 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, and he was looking
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  • Ahead to the 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 of what was
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  • Going on.
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  • For moses, the world was his oyster, he could have anything
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  • He wanted.
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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
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  • His cards right, he might have been the most important man on
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  • The face of the earth.
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  • But underneath that beautiful apparel, beat the heart of
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  • A jew, and his fellow hebrews were suffering under the cruel
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  • Taskmasters of egypt.
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  • And he cared for his fellow jews and for him, he could not stay
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  • In this place that he was, he had to leave the palace.
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  • And verse 24: "by faith, when he grew up, he refused to be
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  • Treated as the son of pharaoh's daughter."
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  • "he grew up," i heard that expression a lot when i was
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  • Growing up, teachers would say it to me, other people would
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  • Say, "greg laurie, will you just grow up!"
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  • Because 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, never shared that before.
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  • That was a joke, by the way, just wanted to see if you're
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  • Listening, but the idea is, you know, i wasn't growing up as
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  • Quickly as people wanted me to, 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, we need to grow up spiritually, and
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  • One of the indications of spiritual growth is when we
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  • Start thinking about others more than ourselves.
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  • If moses just thought of himself, he'd say, hey man,
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  • I--i'm living the life of a king, i'm gonna just stay
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  • Right here.
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  • But no, others were suffering, and he thought, i've got to do
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  • Something to alleviate their suffering.
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  • So that brings us to point number one: he refused a lot
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  • Of things.
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  • What did he refuse?
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  • Number 1: he refused a position of power in egypt, he refused
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  • 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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  • Acts 7:22: "moses was educated in the learning of the
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  • Egyptians," but see, god did not want him to be moses, the
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  • Egyptian scholar, or moses, the egyptian statement--statesman,
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  • Rather, god wanted him to be moses, the man of god, and by
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  • The way, that's what the lord wants from each of us as well.
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  • Number 2: moses refused the pleasures of egypt, the
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  • Pleasures of egypt, for him to stay in this place of power
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  • Would have been sinful.
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  • What motivated moses?
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  • Answer: he had a heavenly perspective, he had a
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  • Heavenly perspective.
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  • Look at hebrews 11, verse 26: "he was looking ahead to the
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  • Great reward that god would give him."
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  • He wasn't even sure what it was, but he knew better things were
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  • 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, you know the story, he saw an egyptian slave driver
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  • Mistreating a jew, so moses looked to the right, he looked
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  • To the left, 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 thought, well, that's
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  • It for me, but he wasn't quite prepared for what was about to
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  • Happen because he was gonna encounter a bush that did not
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  • Stop burning and he was gonna come face to face with the god
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  • Of second chances.
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  • Look at exodus chapter 3, starting in verse 1: "one day
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  • Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, jethro, the
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  • Priest of midian.
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  • He went deep into the wilderness near sinai, 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 but
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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 he saw he had caught the attention of
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  • Moses, called to him from the bush, 'moses!
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  • Moses!'
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  • 'here am i,' moses replied.
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  • God said, 'don't come any closer.
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  • Take off your sandals, for you're standing on
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  • 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, 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 into 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, yeah, just
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  • Worked to take the old pension," "what are you gonna do?"
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  • "golf," "what else?"
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  • "fish," "what else?"
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  • "sleep," "what else?"
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  • "fish," "what else?"
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  • "try to golf and fish simultaneously maybe."
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  • Get out of your la-z-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, jeremiah was
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  • But a teenager.
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  • My point to you is god wants to use all of us at every stage of
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  • 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, i'm the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob."
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  • Now we hear that, it sounds very impressive, abraham, isaac, and
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  • Jacob, right?
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  • But wait, let's think about it for a moment because in the
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  • "world changers" 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 is filled with a lot of
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  • Interesting characters, all with serious problems: abraham, the
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  • Father of faith, had flaws and lapses of faith and lied on
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  • 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 of
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  • Second chances.
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  • And why would he say that to moses?
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  • Because moses needed a second chance, because 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 is saying, buddy, i'm
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  • Recommissioning you, so park the winnebago and let's get busy,
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  • We've got work to do.
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  • And we're gonna go and deliver a nation from the power of egypt
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  • Because i'm aware of all that my people 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 to serve the
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  • Lord, 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,
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  • Many of us are not doing it, 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
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  • In one 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, pastor greg laurie here with some
  • 00:12:52.003 --> 00:12:53.905
  • Thoughts about sharing your faith.
  • 00:12:53.905 --> 00:12:57.041
  • You know, i think we're reluctant to tell others about
  • 00:12:57.041 --> 00:12:59.878
  • Jesus because we feel as though we're gonna somehow fall flat
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  • On our face or mess it up, but think of it this way: when
  • 00:13:03.181 --> 00:13:06.885
  • Someone asks you for a good place to eat, are you reluctant
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  • To tell them what your favorite restaurant is?
  • 00:13:09.888 --> 00:13:12.257
  • Or if someone says, "hey, have you seen any good movies
  • 00:13:12.257 --> 00:13:15.126
  • Lately," are you apprehensive about telling them about a film
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  • You just saw?
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  • Probably the opposite, "oh, i just saw this great film," or,
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  • "oh, i had this great meal at this place," it's called
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  • A recommendation; i mean, what is yelp?
  • 00:13:24.669 --> 00:13:26.905
  • Yelp is a place where we go and basically read the opinions of
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  • Total strangers and maybe eat in that place upon
  • 00:13:30.508 --> 00:13:33.478
  • That recommendation.
  • 00:13:33.478 --> 00:13:34.979
  • So think of evangelism this way: it's offering a recommendation,
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  • Saying, here's what christ has done for me, and i recommend
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  • That to you.
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  • Don't be so afraid to do it, people are searching for truth,
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  • People are searching for hope.
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  • People are searching for meaning in life, and you have the
  • 00:13:51.396 --> 00:13:54.332
  • Greatest recommendation of all.
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  • So i encourage you to look for new ways to start evangelistic
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  • Conversations and make that recommendation, that people
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  • Believe in jesus christ.
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  • Greg: excuse number 1: exodus 3:11, i don't deserve to be used
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  • By god.
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  • He says, "who am i to appear before pharaoh?"
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  • Moses asked 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, why not
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  • Pick some young guy?
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  • Moses had a lot of baggage, you know, he had made a lot of
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  • Mistakes and in a way, he was sort of a has-been, a failure,
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  • Even an embarrassment, why use him?
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  • Use somebody who'd never--no, god says, i want moses because
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  • I've been whipping this boy into shape for a long time and he is
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  • Ready to rumble, 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 expect--unexpected people.
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  • God wants to reach the nation of nineveh, so the lord calls
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  • Jonah, listen, jonah was a racist.
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  • You say, what do you mean?
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  • He hated the ninevites, he wanted god to kill
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  • The ninevites.
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  • God said, you're the perfect guy to go preach to the ninevites.
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  • I don't wanna go, yeah, whatever, let's go, and a great
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  • 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, their 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.
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  • Hiding behind a wall, sort of threshing the wheat, and an
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  • Angel appears and says, "hey gideon, you mighty man of
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  • Courage, the lord is with you," gideon's like, "is there another
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  • Gideon here?
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  • What, you mean moi, me?"
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  • "yeah, you," well, that doesn't make any sense, if there's
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  • Anything gideon was not at that moment, it was a mighty man of
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  • Courage, but listen to this: god doesn't see you for what you
  • 00:15:55.186 --> 00:15:58.790
  • Are, he sees you for what you can become, 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 want to liberate
  • 00:16:07.732 --> 00:16:13.371
  • An angel from that marble."
  • 00:16:13.371 --> 00:16:15.640
  • See, the great artist michelangelo could just look at
  • 00:16:15.640 --> 00:16:18.142
  • 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.
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  • You don't know it yet, but i know, i know what i can make you
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  • Into, you'll be a mighty man of god, you'll be a mighty woman
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  • 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 2: 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 23--or 13, excuse me,
  • 00:16:47.605 --> 00:16:51.976
  • "moses protested, 'if i go to the people and tell them, 'the
  • 00:16:51.976 --> 00:16:54.645
  • God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' they won't believe
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  • Me, they'll ask, 'which god are you talking about, and what is
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  • His name?'
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  • Then what would i tell them?'
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  • God says, 'well, you just tell them, i am who i am.
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  • Just say the i am has sent me to you.'"
  • 00:17:08.026 --> 00:17:11.529
  • Funny thing; moses says, "who am i?"
  • 00:17:11.529 --> 00:17:14.232
  • God says, "i am that i am," stop talking about yourself, stop
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  • Thinking about yourself, you just tell them i am has
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  • 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
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  • A non-believer with the gospel that they'll ask us a hard
  • 00:17:29.814 --> 00:17:33.885
  • Question we don't have the answer to.
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  • I don't have all the answers, 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
  • 00:17:40.291 --> 00:17:42.727
  • 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, my
  • 00:17:48.900 --> 00:17:52.070
  • Job is not to prove the existence of god, my job is to
  • 00:17:52.070 --> 00:17:55.940
  • 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
  • 00:18:04.582 --> 00:18:08.352
  • Than any two-edged sword; if they believe it or not, it is
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  • What it is.
  • 00:18:11.956 --> 00:18:13.558
  • And so that would be like, you know, talking to someone, you
  • 00:18:13.558 --> 00:18:15.693
  • Have a sword, they say, "well, like i don't believe your
  • 00:18:15.693 --> 00:18:17.528
  • Sword's real, okay, man?
  • 00:18:17.528 --> 00:18:19.430
  • Like, i think your sword is like just an imagination i--"
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  • "oh yeah, let me use my sword on you for a moment," pow, pow!
  • 00:18:23.634 --> 00:18:26.304
  • And now they're gonna believe the sword's real when i give
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  • Them a good poke with it.
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  • "well, i don't believe in the bible, i don't think it's
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  • Inspired by god," "yeah, really?
  • 00:18:34.078 --> 00:18:35.847
  • Interesting, here's what the bible says," and you just share
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  • It with them, and the power of god's word will penetrate
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  • Their heart.
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  • God says, "my word will not return to me void, it will
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  • Prosper in the place where i send it."
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  • Years ago, when i was starting crusade evangelism, it was the
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  • Mid-30s--excuse me, i was mis--i totally said that wrong, i was
  • 00:18:54.899 --> 00:18:59.103
  • In my mid-30s, i haven't been doing it that long.
  • 00:18:59.103 --> 00:19:02.907
  • Funny, it was actually mid-'90s, but i was in my mid-30s, and you
  • 00:19:02.907 --> 00:19:08.279
  • Know a funny thing, when i was in my 30s, i thought i was
  • 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:12.083
  • Really old, i thought, "wow, i'm really old now, i'm in my 30s."
  • 00:19:12.083 --> 00:19:16.354
  • When i talk to young people, they say, "i'm so old, i'm in my
  • 00:19:16.354 --> 00:19:19.023
  • 30s," i say, "please stop, you're not old yet, okay?
  • 00:19:19.023 --> 00:19:21.959
  • Trust me, you'll know what i'm talking about later," right?
  • 00:19:21.959 --> 00:19:24.762
  • Well, anyway, i'd been getting so old and--but you know, this
  • 00:19:24.762 --> 00:19:28.132
  • Opportunity opened up to preach the gospel in arenas and
  • 00:19:28.132 --> 00:19:30.801
  • Stadiums and such, and i was a little overwhelmed by it, and we
  • 00:19:30.801 --> 00:19:34.605
  • Were visiting with ruth graham, who we got to know very well,
  • 00:19:34.605 --> 00:19:37.742
  • She was billy's wife, she's in heaven now.
  • 00:19:37.742 --> 00:19:41.045
  • And we were often asked to speak at the billy graham training
  • 00:19:41.045 --> 00:19:44.282
  • Center at the cove, which is very close to the home of
  • 00:19:44.282 --> 00:19:47.652
  • The grahams.
  • 00:19:47.652 --> 00:19:49.020
  • And billy was usually not there because he was somewhere in the
  • 00:19:49.020 --> 00:19:51.923
  • World doing a crusade, but ruth was always home, and she would
  • 00:19:51.923 --> 00:19:56.194
  • Always come out to the bible studies and take notes.
  • 00:19:56.194 --> 00:19:59.564
  • It's amazing like, why would you take notes when i'm speaking?
  • 00:19:59.564 --> 00:20:02.633
  • I mean, she was such a wonderful lady, and we'd spend a lot of
  • 00:20:02.633 --> 00:20:05.436
  • Time hanging out with her.
  • 00:20:05.436 --> 00:20:06.771
  • She was fun-loving, quick to laugh, very knowledgeable of
  • 00:20:06.771 --> 00:20:10.675
  • Scripture, full of wisdom, and one day i said, "oh ruth, i'm so
  • 00:20:10.675 --> 00:20:14.579
  • Intimidated, i, you know, doing these crusades and all this
  • 00:20:14.579 --> 00:20:17.448
  • Stuff, i don't feel like i'm really ready for it, i need
  • 00:20:17.448 --> 00:20:20.318
  • To really brush up on my apologetics."
  • 00:20:20.318 --> 00:20:22.053
  • She said, "greg, don't worry about that, you just proclaim
  • 00:20:22.053 --> 00:20:25.223
  • The gospel.
  • 00:20:25.223 --> 00:20:26.557
  • That's what billy always did and that's what you need to do," and
  • 00:20:26.557 --> 00:20:28.726
  • I said, "yes, ma'am," and she was right.
  • 00:20:28.726 --> 00:20:31.796
  • And you know, as the years have passed, in my evangelistic
  • 00:20:31.796 --> 00:20:34.966
  • Preaching, i've actually gotten simpler by intention.
  • 00:20:34.966 --> 00:20:39.870
  • And by that i mean, is that i've tried to make the message so
  • 00:20:39.870 --> 00:20:44.075
  • Understandable, not assuming that my listener has a clue as
  • 00:20:44.075 --> 00:20:48.346
  • To what i'm actually talking about, not assuming people know
  • 00:20:48.346 --> 00:20:51.649
  • Biblical terminology because nowadays, most don't.
  • 00:20:51.649 --> 00:20:56.420
  • And so you have to make it very understandable so if they reject
  • 00:20:56.420 --> 00:21:00.324
  • It, let it be because they don't like the message or wanna
  • 00:21:00.324 --> 00:21:03.894
  • Believe it, as opposed to because they don't
  • 00:21:03.894 --> 00:21:06.797
  • Understand it.
  • 00:21:06.797 --> 00:21:08.165
  • So moses continues on with his plethora of excuses.
  • 00:21:08.165 --> 00:21:12.403
  • I just wanted to use the word "plethora" in a sentence.
  • 00:21:12.403 --> 00:21:17.341
  • Excuse number 3: the people won't believe me, that's in
  • 00:21:17.341 --> 00:21:20.811
  • Exodus 4: "the people won't believe me," exodus 4, verse 1:
  • 00:21:20.811 --> 00:21:24.882
  • "moses protested again, 'look, they won't believe me, they
  • 00:21:24.882 --> 00:21:28.286
  • Won't do what i tell them, they'll just say the lord never
  • 00:21:28.286 --> 00:21:30.588
  • Appeared to you.'
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  • The lord says, 'what do you have there in your hand?'
  • 00:21:31.922 --> 00:21:33.457
  • Moses said, 'well, a shepherd's staff.'
  • 00:21:33.457 --> 00:21:35.192
  • 'throw it to the ground,' the lord said.
  • 00:21:35.192 --> 00:21:37.194
  • 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, i just--he throws it, ah!
  • 00:21:43.334 --> 00:21:46.304
  • Runs, it's a snake, probably a cobra.
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  • "the lord said, 'take hold of the snake.'
  • 00:21:49.206 --> 00:21:51.676
  • And he reached down and grabbed it, and it became a shepherd's
  • 00:21:51.676 --> 00:21:54.578
  • Staff again."
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  • Exodus 4:5: "perform this sign, and they'll believe you," the
  • 00:21:56.013 --> 00:21:59.116
  • Lord told him, "and they'll realize that the lord, the god
  • 00:21:59.116 --> 00:22:02.019
  • Of their ancestors--the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob has
  • 00:22:02.019 --> 00:22:06.357
  • Appeared to you."
  • 00:22:06.357 --> 00:22:08.025
  • Now, this is crazy because, first of all, you never grab
  • 00:22:08.025 --> 00:22:11.462
  • A snake by the tail because it'll turn around and bite you,
  • 00:22:11.462 --> 00:22:14.699
  • I've told you that before.
  • 00:22:14.699 --> 00:22:16.267
  • God says, "grab the snake," why?
  • 00:22:16.267 --> 00:22:18.569
  • The snake was a symbol of egypt, in particular the cobra.
  • 00:22:18.569 --> 00:22:22.740
  • You can look at the--not the car, the snake, you can look at
  • 00:22:22.740 --> 00:22:26.377
  • The antiquities of egypt today and see that cobra there
  • 00:22:26.377 --> 00:22:30.181
  • Symbolizing the pharaoh, in particular, and the nation
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  • Of egypt.
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  • So here's what god is saying, i'm more powerful than the
  • 00:22:35.252 --> 00:22:38.022
  • Snake, i'm more powerful than egypt.
  • 00:22:38.022 --> 00:22:41.325
  • I'm more powerful than pharaoh, so pick it up.
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  • Our modern vernacular might be take the tiger by the tail,
  • 00:22:45.062 --> 00:22:49.567
  • Don't be intimidated, face your fears and say, the lord is
  • 00:22:49.567 --> 00:22:53.871
  • Greater than all of my fears.
  • 00:22:53.871 --> 00:22:56.006
  • And that's what moses did, he picked it up because he was
  • 00:22:56.006 --> 00:22:59.009
  • Being commissioned by god.
  • 00:22:59.009 --> 00:23:01.379
  • And we have been commissioned as well by the lord to represent
  • 00:23:01.379 --> 00:23:05.783
  • Christ to a pagan culture.
  • 00:23:05.783 --> 00:23:08.119
  • Moses was called to the pagan culture of egypt, we're called
  • 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:11.622
  • To the pagan culture of the united states of america and to
  • 00:23:11.622 --> 00:23:16.160
  • The world.
  • 00:23:16.160 --> 00:23:17.495
  • And when i say pagan, i don't mean that in a mean way, i mean
  • 00:23:17.495 --> 00:23:20.464
  • It in a descriptive way.
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  • When i use the word "pagan," i'm talking about people that
  • 00:23:22.800 --> 00:23:25.836
  • Believe in anything and everything but the right thing.
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  • Look at excuse number 4: moses says, i'm not a good speaker,
  • 00:23:30.741 --> 00:23:34.712
  • Verse 10: "0 lord, i--i'm clumsy with words, i'm not
  • 00:23:34.712 --> 00:23:38.749
  • A good speaker."
  • 00:23:38.749 --> 00:23:40.584
  • Listen to this: god is not looking for good speakers, he's
  • 00:23:40.584 --> 00:23:44.088
  • Looking for obedient servants.
  • 00:23:44.088 --> 00:23:47.391
  • You don't have to be a good speaker, you just need to be
  • 00:23:47.391 --> 00:23:49.827
  • Someone who obeys god, he'll give you the words, because god
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  • Is more interested in character than charisma, you see.
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  • And look, i--i'm not a good speaker, i don't think i am, but
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  • I have a great message, and i'm confident in my message and
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  • That's why i proclaim it, and you have that same message and
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  • We all need to get it out.
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  • By the way, by that applause, i'm assuming you're affirming
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  • That i'm not a good speaker, so thanks for that.
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  • No, seriously, you know you meant it, but it's true.
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  • Okay, last excuse, number 5: i'm not qualified.
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  • I'm not qualified, verse 13: "lord, please send by the hand
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  • Of whomever else you will send," that's a fancy way of saying get
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  • Someone else to do it, "here i am, lord, send him, not me," and
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  • Then he actually suggests his brother aaron, "you know aaron,
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  • My bro, he is a--this guy can talk, man, he has the gift of
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  • Gab, use him."
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  • Lord says, "i don't want aaron, i want you."
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  • "well, i can't do it, i, i, i have a speech impediment,
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  • I stumble over my words, i, i stutter, i, i, i, i, i, i, i,
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  • I ju--i ju--ju--ju--just not the guy."
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  • "yeah, that's why i want you."
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  • Stop with the excuses, they're not legit.
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  • You have no reason why you can't be used of god, you only have
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  • Lame excuses.
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  • The lord says, "i want you to do is say, 'lord, thank you, i'll
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  • Do it, and i know you will help me to do it.'"
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  • And ultimately, moses agreed and did what the lord called him
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  • To do.
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  • Greg: have you ever heard the term gospel before?
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  • It means good news, but before i can fully appreciate the good
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  • News, i have to know the bad news.
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  • You and i were sinners, which means we've broken god's
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  • Commandments, we've fallen short of his standards.
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  • Good news: jesus christ died in our place, he came to pay
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  • A debt he did not owe because we owed a debt we could not pay.
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  • If you will turn from your sin and put your faith in
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  • Jesus christ, you can be forgiven and know that you'll go
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  • To heaven when you die and find the meaning of life right here
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  • On planet earth.
  • 00:26:10.100 --> 00:26:11.468
  • You just call out to jesus and say, forgive me, i want to have
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  • A relationship with you.
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  • I would like to send you a bible at no charge to help you get
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  • Started in your new relationship with christ.
  • 00:26:22.212 --> 00:26:26.884
  • Greg: you know, the bible says a good person leaves an
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  • Inheritance for their children's children.
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  • God encourages all of us as christians to manage our money
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  • Well so we can be a blessing to our families and to others.
  • 00:26:42.199 --> 00:26:46.704
  • Harvest has a special gift for you today, an opportunity to set
  • 00:26:46.704 --> 00:26:51.075
  • Up a will or a living trust completely free of charge.
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  • Here's how you can learn more.
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  • Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest, we've
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  • Partnered with our friends at freewill.
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  • Freewill is an easy-to-use estate planning tool that allows
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  • You to make planned gifts to organizations of your choice.
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  • It's a creative opportunity to support the work we're doing
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  • Here at harvest ministries, so as you make your plans, i hope
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  • You'll consider investing in this ministry so we can continue
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  • To preach the gospel and teach the word of god for
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  • Years to come.
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  • You can learn more at freewill.com/harvest.
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