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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Get Your Feet Wet

June 6, 2025 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Get Your Feet Wet
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Get Your Feet Wet | June 6, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: maybe i'm talking to someone who's made decisions
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  • They deeply regret, you've lost precious time with your kids,
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  • As an example, and you say, "it's too late for me,
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  • I can't change."
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  • Well, you can't change the past, but you can make decisions
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  • That will affect your future.
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  • ♪♪♪
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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: so let me start my message with a few questions.
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  • Are you satisfied with your present spiritual state?
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  • Do you wish you could be stronger, as a christian,
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  • In your faith, and even be used by god more?
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  • Do you feel like maybe you're stagnant spiritually, and maybe
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  • Have even lost some ground in your christian experience?
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  • And would you like to overcome sin in your life and take
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  • New ground as a follower of jesus christ?
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  • And, the most important question of all, don't you think that
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  • Prius drivers should get out of the fast lane all together?
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  • Because they can't seem to drive the speed limit?
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  • I want you to think about that, not really.
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  • But these are questions that we maybe all ask from time to time.
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  • How can i grow more, how can i do more,
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  • How can i see more happen in my life as a follower of jesus?
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  • Well, here we are in the book of joshua.
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  • This is a pivotal moment, the wilderness wanderings are done,
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  • The spies have gone into the land and they've come back
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  • With a good report, rahab has been a great hero of the faith
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  • And she has protected the spies.
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  • And so, now they're poised and ready to enter into
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  • This promised land.
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  • There was just one really big problem, an obstacle in their
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  • Path, it was a mighty, rushing jordan river, so it was time
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  • For them to get their feet wet.
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  • So, let's read, now, joshua chapter 3, as the israelites
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  • Come to the point of entry of the promised land
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  • And they face the jordan river.
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  • Joshua 3, starting in verse 8, i'm reading from
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  • The new living translation.
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  • "when you see the levitical priest carrying the ark of the
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  • Covenant of the lord your god, move out from your positions and
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  • Follow them.
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  • For you've never passed this way before."
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  • You might underline that phrase, i'm gonna come back to it.
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  • "'you have never passed this way before, they will guide you.
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  • Stay about a half mile behind them, keep a clear distance
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  • Between you and the ark.
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  • Make sure you don't come any closer.'
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  • Then joshua said to the people, 'purify yourselves, for tomorrow
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  • The lord will do great wonders among you.'
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  • In the morning joshua said to the priests, 'lift up the ark of
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  • The covenant and lead the people across the river.'
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  • And they started out and went ahead of the people.
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  • The lord told joshua, 'today i'll begin to make you a great
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  • Leader in the eyes of the israelites.
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  • They'll know that i'm with you, just as i was with moses.
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  • Give this command to the priests who carry the ark of
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  • The covenant: "when you reach the banks of the jordan river,
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  • Take a few steps into the river and stop there.'"
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  • Okay, we'll stop here.
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  • And here's point number one, if you want to enter the land
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  • Of promises, you must be bold and strong.
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  • Let me say it again.
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  • If you want to enter this land of promises, you must be bold
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  • And strong.
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  • Look at verse 4, "they had never passed this way before."
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  • Maybe i'm talking to somebody right now who's in a new season
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  • Of life, maybe you've just moved out of your parents's house,
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  • You are 50, but still, you've done it, so that's good,
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  • And they're very happy about that, by the way.
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  • Maybe you're newly married, maybe you just had your first
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  • Child, maybe you've started a new career or maybe
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  • You've started a new ministry, and you're kind of afraid,
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  • "well, i don't know what's gonna happen next,"
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  • You've never passed this way before.
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  • God was with the people of israel,
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  • He'll be with you as well.
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  • Point number two, if you wanna live in the land of promises,
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  • Keep your eyes on god, keep your eyes on god.
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  • The key for the israelites was the ark of the covenant, look at
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  • Verse 4, they had to keep their eyes on the priests and the ark
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  • Leading the way.
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  • Verse 4, it says, "when you see the levitical priests carrying
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  • The ark of the covenant of the lord your god, move out from
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  • Your positions and follow them."
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  • The ark of the covenant.
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  • Now, many of us know more about it because of the
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  • "indiana jones" film, and we think, isn't that stored
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  • In a warehouse somewhere?
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  • Well, there was an ark of the covenant given to the people
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  • Of israel, it's mentioned, by the way,
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  • 16 times in chapters 3 and 4.
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  • What was in the ark were the commandments of god,
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  • The ten commandments were in the ark,
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  • Aaron's rod and a jar of manna,
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  • It was a visible symbol of the presence of god.
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  • So, the priests would pick it up, they would carry it on their
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  • Shoulders, they were not to put it on a cart, they were to carry
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  • It by hand, and that visible symbol of god's presence was
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  • To be at the forefront of what they are doing.
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  • So, the people of israel are told, "keep your eyes on the ark
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  • And keep your eyes on the priests who are leading
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  • The way."
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  • And the same is true for us, when you're going through life
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  • Following jesus, keep your eyes on the lord.
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  • Don't put your eyes on people, because people are gonna let you
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  • Down, people are gonna disappoint you.
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  • Guess what?
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  • You're gonna disappoint someone, right?
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  • And so, keep your eyes on the lord.
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  • As the author of hebrews 12 says, "looking to jesus,
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  • The author and finisher of your faith."
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  • "lay aside the way in the sin that so easily besets you,"
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  • He says before that, and keep your eyes on the lord.
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  • I don't wanna go anywhere if god isn't going there first,
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  • I wanna be where the lord is.
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  • I'd rather be in a lion's den with jesus than in a palace
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  • Without him, i'd rather be in a fiery furnace with jesus
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  • Than on a tropical island without him, i'd rather be
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  • In a storm with jesus than on dry land without him.
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  • I wanna be where he is.
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  • And this is what the lord is saying, "keep your eyes
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  • On the ark."
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  • Point number three, if you wanna live in the land of promises,
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  • You need to take risks.
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  • Here was their challenge, "you have to cross the jordan river."
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  • This is flood season, this river moves at about 10 mph.
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  • There's no way you wanna cross this river with your little kids
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  • And your livestock and your belongings, it's not possible.
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  • There was just an impassable river, as i said,
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  • In flood season, but they yet began to walk.
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  • Bringing me to point number four:
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  • If you're called to lead, you must go first and set the pace.
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  • God made a promise to joshua in joshua 3:7, he said, "today i'll
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  • Begin to make you a great leader in the eyes of the israelites,"
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  • And, "they'll know i am with you, just as i was with moses."
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  • Wow, i'm gonna make you a great leader in their eyes,
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  • King james says, "i'm gonna magnify you."
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  • But it's interesting that joshua doesn't go and say that
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  • To the people.
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  • He didn't say, "hey, by the way, god just spoke to me and said
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  • He's going to magnify me and make me a great leader,"
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  • He says something different.
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  • He says to them instead, in verse 10, "you'll know now that
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  • The living god is among you," no pride or arrogance about it.
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  • You know, sometimes it's best to keep your dreams to yourself.
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  • Let me explain.
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  • God revealed to joseph that he was gonna be the second-most
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  • Powerful man in all of egypt.
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  • He had this dream, this vision of his future, and he went
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  • And told his brothers, and it did not play well in peoria,
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  • They were angry, they were jealous, they were resentful.
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  • And you know that story, how they betrayed him and sold him
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  • Into slavery, and all the rest.
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  • And then, ultimately, joseph's dream came true, and he was
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  • Exalted to be this man of influence and power.
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  • But sometimes the lord might reveal something to you,
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  • But that doesn't mean you need to tell everybody else, just
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  • Wait on the lord and trust in the lord and be humble
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  • Before the lord.
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  • And if it is meant to be, it will be and it will happen.
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  • And so, joshua is humble about this, and i think if you wanna
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  • Be used by god, you need to be humble.
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  • Now, you can act like you're humble when you're not humble
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  • At all, you can talk so much about how humble you are.
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  • "i'm just so humble."
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  • You're so humble you drop the h, "i'm just so 'umble."
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  • Now you're british too, you're cockney actually, you talk
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  • Like michael caine.
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  • That's a bad michael caine.
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  • But you're not really humble, you can talk so much about being
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  • Humble it becomes prideful, just do your job and do what god
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  • Has called you to do, and the lord will guide,
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  • And the lord will direct.
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  • Bringing me to point number five: joshua and the people
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  • Of israel moved in faith.
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  • It took faith to put their feet into the water.
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  • Oswald chambers said, and i quote, "faith enables
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  • The believing soul to treat the future as present
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  • And the invisible as seen."
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  • That's a great statement, "faith enables the believing soul
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  • To see the future as present and the invisible as seen."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: what is faith?
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  • We use the word a lot, the reality is, we apply faith
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  • Every single day.
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  • For instance, when you step into an elevator, is that not an act
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  • Of faith that the person who inspected it did his or her job
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  • And it's gonna get you to your floor, not drop you
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  • To your death?
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  • When you board a plane, a 747, you're putting faith
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  • In the designers and the aerodynamics, and, of course,
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  • In the pilots in the cockpit.
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  • We use faith every single day.
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  • And then, someone says, "well, put your faith in god,"
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  • And we say, "what are you, crazy?
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  • I can't put faith in god."
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  • There's no safer or better place to put your faith
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  • Than in god himself.
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  • What is faith?
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  • Well, hebrews 11:1 says, "faith is the substance of things
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  • Hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
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  • Let me put it another way, faith is belief plus action.
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  • For instance, i can give intellectual assent
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  • To a certain truth.
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  • I can say, "i believe jesus christ walked this earth
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  • And i believe he was the son of god."
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  • That's great, but to have faith in christ means, "now i choose
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  • To put my belief in jesus."
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  • Have you done that?
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  • It's acting on something you believe is true, because,
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  • "faith without works is dead," that's what the bible says.
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  • A faith without works is a faith that does not work, so put
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  • Your faith into action, start believing what god says in his
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  • Word, because you will find that when you apply your faith
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  • And believe the word of god, amazing things will happen.
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  • Example, when jesus walked this earth, he didn't have to touch
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  • People physically or have them touch him, he could have just
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  • Said, "on the count of three, everybody is healed,"
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  • Bwoosh, healing.
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  • Well, healing would probably sound more like, "bu-ring,"
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  • I don't know what it would sound like.
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  • But instead, he waited for people to reach out to him, like
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  • Blind barnabas, who said, "if i'll just call out his name,"
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  • Or the woman who said, "if i can just touch the edge
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  • Of his robe," and others that applied their faith.
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  • Apply your faith. faith is belief plus action.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: point number six, if you're called to be a leader,
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  • Then lead.
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  • If you're called to be a leader, then lead.
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  • Notice, the priests had to take point and do this first.
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  • Now, maybe god is calling some of you to be a leader.
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  • You think, "well, that's very prideful, to say,
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  • 'i want to be a leader.'"
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  • Well, i think it's prideful to not obey god.
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  • If he's called you to lead, then lead.
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  • I can guarantee this, he's called everyone to do something.
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  • We all have certain spiritual gifts that god has placed
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  • In our life.
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  • Romans 12:7-8 says, "if your gift is serving others,
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  • Serve them well.
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  • If you're a teacher, teach well.
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  • If your gift is encouraging others, then be encouraging.
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  • If your gift is giving, then give generously.
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  • If god has given you a leadership ability,
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  • Take that responsibility seriously."
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  • If you think that maybe god has called you to be a leader,
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  • Here's a good way to find out, just lead and see
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  • If anyone follows.
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  • "hey, everybody, come on, let's go."
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  • If you're by yourself, maybe you're not a leader.
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  • You know leaders when you see them.
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  • They just have that ability, they have that gifting,
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  • They have that something that makes you wanna listen
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  • To what they say, follow them where they tell you
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  • You ought to go.
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  • One definition i heard of leadership is, "a leader is
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  • Someone who takes people where they don't necessarily want
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  • To go, but when they get there, they're glad they went."
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  • I think that's a good definition.
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  • So there's one final point i wanna make,
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  • And we'll wrap this message up, and it is this.
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  • Remember to give thanks with as much passion as you prayed
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  • For help.
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  • So, the israelites step into the water, following the priests
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  • Who have the ark of the covenant aloft where everyone can see it.
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  • Suddenly, they're going through the water, it pulls away.
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  • Now, it's different than the red sea.
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  • When they came to the red sea, their parents saw this,
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  • They didn't.
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  • But they came to the brink of it, moses holds up his staff and
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  • The red sea parts, and it's like walls of water on each side.
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  • The difference here is, they had to get in the water.
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  • How high did it go?
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  • It's moving fast, maybe it got up to their ankles, maybe up
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  • To their knees, i don't know, and all of a sudden, bwoom,
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  • The water pulls aside, they walk over to the other side.
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  • And that brings us to this last point, go to joshua chapter 4,
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  • They're to commemorate this event with stones
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  • Of remembrance.
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  • Joshua 4, verse 21, "then joshua said to the israelites,
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  • 'in the future your children will ask,
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  • "what do these stones mean?'"
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  • They piled up a bunch of stones.
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  • "you can tell them, 'this is where the israelites crossed
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  • The jordan on dry ground.'
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  • For the lord your god dried up the river before your eyes,
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  • He kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did at
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  • The red sea when he dried it up and we all had crossed over.
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  • He did this so all the nations on the earth will know that
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  • The lord's hand is powerful, and that you might fear
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  • The lord your god forever."
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • So, as i said earlier, it is our job to pass on what we have
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  • Learned to the next generation.
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  • We don't wanna live in the past, but we don't wanna forget it
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  • Either, it's good to keep a record of what god has done.
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  • My wife has a little notebook where she writes prayer requests
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  • Down, and so, she'll say, "do you know what we were praying
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  • For on this day one year ago?"
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  • I'll say, "no, what?"
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  • And she said, "we were praying about this."
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  • And i'll remember, "oh wow, that was a big thing, that we were
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  • Wondering how we were gonna get through that challenge,
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  • And look how the lord answered that prayer."
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  • So when you reflect back on what god has done for you in
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  • The past, it helps you as you're facing the present and then
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  • Looking forward to the future.
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  • Let me ask you, has god been faithful to you in the past,
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  • Yes or no?
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  • Yes, okay?
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  • But sometimes we have spiritual amnesia; we forget what the lord
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  • Has done, so it's good to commemorate these things.
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  • They were to set up 12 stones, we need to remember as well.
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  • You know, the thing is, sometimes people wanna live in
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  • The past, and they don't wanna move forward into the present
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  • And certainly not into the future,
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  • And that's not a good thing.
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  • I like to hang out with younger people, i love to hang out with
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  • My grandkids, i've told you that before, but i like to spend time
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  • With younger people in general.
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  • And one of the reasons is, when you hang around old people,
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  • And i am an old person, that may come as a shock to me,
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  • But sometimes when i hang around older people, it's not long
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  • Until everyone starts talking about their latest
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  • Operation, right?
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  • Or their newest ache or pain, and that just gets
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  • Kind of old to me, frankly.
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  • Old people like to say things like, "back in my day," right?
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  • Or, "i'm just gonna sit here for a minute and rest my eyes."
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  • Okay, whatever, "let's go get the early bird special."
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  • Yeah, okay, old people.
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  • You hang around young people, sometimes you don't even know
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  • What they're saying anymore, they have their own language.
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  • I was sitting with my granddaughters the other day and
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  • One of them said, "that's sus."
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  • I said, "what?"
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  • She said, "that's sus."
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  • How many of you know what sus means?
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  • Don't act like you do.
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  • All the younger people here, the rest of you, you don't know
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  • What it means.
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  • No, you may.
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  • Sus means suspicious, so, if i see something that doesn't look
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  • Right or someone doesn't seem right, i'll say, "he's sus."
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  • So if some kid says, "you're sus," that's not a good thing,
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  • Just be aware.
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  • And i heard that one of my granddaughters said to her mom
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  • The other day, "bro, listen," she's like, "i'm your mother,
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  • Stop calling me bro," right?
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  • And there's another one, "they have rizz, they have rizz."
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  • You ever heard that one?
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  • How many of you know what that means?
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  • Okay, you guys, that's a good thing, if you have rizz,
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  • It means that you have charisma, it's short for charisma.
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  • So, if some kid says, "you have rizz," "thank you."
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  • "you're sus," "wait, what?"
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  • We'll never find that out if you don't hang around young people,
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  • You'll be around old people, saying things like,
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  • "that's hunky dory," and, "that's malarkey," or,
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  • "that's far out, man."
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  • It's a good thing to remember what god has done.
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  • Listen, when joshua finished his task, he was sadly forgotten
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  • In one generation.
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  • In judges 2, it says, "joshua the son of nun, the servant
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  • Of the lord, died at the age of 110."
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  • "after that generation died, another generation grew up
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  • Who did not acknowledge the lord or remember the mighty things
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  • He had done for israel."
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  • Wow, one generation, next generation didn't know
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  • Any of it, they'd forgotten all of it.
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  • All the great things god had done through joshua were largely
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  • Forgotten, bringing us back to our responsibility as parents,
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  • To raise our children in the way of the lord.
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  • That's so very important, that's our job.
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  • That's not the school's job, that's not even sunday school's
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  • Job, though we thank god for all the folks that do it, that's not
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  • The job of the christian school, though we're thankful for the
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  • Christian school, it's our job as parents to teach these things
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  • To our children, and we need to take it seriously.
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  • Moses said in deuteronomy 6,
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  • And he said this to me personally,
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  • "these commandments that i give you today
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  • Are to be on your hearts."
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  • I love this, "repeat them again and again," and again,
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  • "to your children.
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  • Talk about them when you're at home, when you're on the road,
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  • When you're going to bed and when you're getting up."
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  • I love that, you know, just integrate it into your life.
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  • By the way, i think it's a good idea to do devotions
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  • With your kids.
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  • And just a thought about devotions, don't make them
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  • Too long, you don't need to take your kids through 18 chapters
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  • Of leviticus, okay?
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  • Five chapters will suffice.
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  • No, but seriously, there's some great resources out there that
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  • You can use, i actually would recommend
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  • The new believer's bible, that i wrote the notes for.
  • 00:20:53.528 --> 00:20:57.032
  • There's a lot of little guides in there and tracts that
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  • You can follow, that will take you through a lot of important
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  • Things in scripture.
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  • So, you could use a tool like that, but read a passage,
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  • Interact, ask your child questions, listen to what
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  • They say.
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  • It's not for you to pontificate and sermonize, it's for you
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  • To integrate those truths into their little lives and show them
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  • How they apply to what they are facing.
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  • It's so important, because one day we'll be gone as parents,
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  • And i wonder what our children will remember about us.
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  • I can tell you this much, your kids will remember the time you
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  • Made for them, they'll remember all of those games you showed up
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  • For, all of those recitals, all of those events, and
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  • You were there taking pictures, being crazy mom and dad.
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  • They remember.
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  • Oh, they looked embarrassed at the time?
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  • The first thing they did when they got up there is they looked
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  • For mom and dad out in that audience, they'll remember
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  • That you did that for them.
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  • Your kids will remember the way you interacted with your spouse,
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  • Because you're effectively, now, giving them a template
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  • For their future.
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  • You're saying, "this is the way that a husband should treat
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  • A wife, this is a way that a wife should treat her husband."
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  • They're watching it, they're observing it, and most likely
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  • They're gonna repeat it for better or for worse.
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  • So, when you think it's a good idea to have arguments in front
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  • Of your kids, and raise your voice and slam doors, and have
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  • Your kids take sides in your debates, you're doing a great
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  • Disservice to those children.
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  • Model for them what they need to see, they'll remember
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  • That as well.
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  • They'll also remember your words of affirmation and your words
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  • Of criticism.
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  • Some parents beat their children down, other parents lift
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  • Their children up.
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  • That doesn't mean we should not correct our children.
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  • That is the job of a parent, not necessarily the job
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  • Of a grandparent, i might add, though a grandparent might need
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  • To do that.
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  • I feel the job of the parent is to raise the child, the job
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  • Of the grandparent is to fill them up with sugar, spoil them,
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  • Indulge them, be delighted by everything they say and do,
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  • And then give them back to their parents, right?
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  • So, but grandparents play such an important role right now.
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  • I've heard so many stories, as you have, of delinquent parents
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  • Who have failed in their responsibilities
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  • And grandparents have stepped in, sometimes ended up raising
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  • The child.
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  • And how important that is.
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  • My grandparents made a great impact on my life when i lived
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  • With them for a time while my mom was living her crazy life.
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  • But we are to train them up in the way that they should go,
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  • And so this is something we all should do.
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  • Now, i'm sure every one of us, as we've heard this,
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  • Have thought, "well, i've fallen short in a lot
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  • Of these things," right?
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  • We've made a mess of our life.
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  • Maybe i'm talking to someone who's made decisions they deeply
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  • Regret, you've lost precious time with your kids, as an
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  • Example, and you say, "it's too late for me, i can't change."
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  • Well, you can't change the past, but you can make decisions that
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  • Will affect your future, and you can say, "okay, i'm not gonna
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  • Live that way anymore and i'm going to repent."
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  • Remember, when we repent, god relents.
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  • Acknowledge where you've fallen short, ask god to help you,
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  • And move forward.
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  • Now, let's wrap this up, and pull the camera back
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  • For a moment and look at the bigger picture of israel
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  • Entering the promised land.
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  • What was this all about?
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  • This land that they were entering into was gonna be the
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  • Very geographical location of the most important event in all
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  • Of human history, this is where the son of god was gonna
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  • Come down from heaven and enter our world, this is where jesus
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  • Christ would be crucified for the sins of humanity and
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  • Of every person, this is where he would rise again and ascend
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  • To heaven, and this is the place that he would return to as well.
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  • This is what it was all about, and now we're told to put
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  • Our faith in him, and i can't think of anyone i'd rather put
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  • My faith in.
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  • Don't put your faith in objects or possessions;
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  • They'll let you down.
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  • Don't put your faith in accomplishments, don't put your
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  • Faith in other people, you can love them and respect them,
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  • But don't put your ultimate faith in them.
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  • Don't put your faith in politicians, they're gonna
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  • Disappoint you.
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  • Don't put your faith in preachers, they'll
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  • Disappoint you, too, except me.
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  • No, i'll disappoint you as well, i don't even have to say that.
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  • Why did i even say that?
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  • You know, "but i won't."
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  • I will, yes.
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  • No, put your faith in god, that's where your faith belongs,
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  • He will never let you down, ever.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • Could you use some good news in a bad world?
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  • I've got some good news for you, god loves you and he has a plan
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  • For your life.
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  • Ah, but there's some bad news.
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  • The bad news is, we've sinned against god, we've broken
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  • His commandments.
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  • But here's what god did, he sent his son, jesus christ, to die
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  • In a cross for our sins and rise again from the dead.
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  • Listen to this, if you ask jesus to come into your life,
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  • Your sin is forgiven and you'll go to heaven.
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  • If you want jesus to come into your life, just pray a prayer
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  • Like this.
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  • "jesus, come into my life, forgive me of my sin,
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  • I've fallen short of your glory.
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  • I want to know you, i want a relationship with you.
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  • In jesus's name i pray, amen."
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  • If you just prayed that prayer with me, call that number
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  • Or text that number on your screen right now.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest
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  • We've partnered with our friends at freewill.
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  • It's a creative opportunity to support the work
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  • So as you make your plans, i hope you'll consider
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  • Investing in this ministry so we can continue
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  • To preach the gospel and teach the word of god
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  • For years to come.
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  • You can learn more at freewill.com/harvest.
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