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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - God Keeps His Promises | March 31, 2025
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- Greg laurie: remember, god never forgets about you.
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- Even if things are hard for you right now circumstantially.
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- Maybe you feel as though you've not heard from the lord, just
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- Hang in there, and hold on, and don't forget about him.
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- ♪ this is the day, the day where life begins. ♪
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- ♪ this is the day, the day where life begins. ♪
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- Greg laurie: so we've all had promises made to us, maybe some
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- Were broken.
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- Maybe we made a promise to someone else that we broke.
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- But the good news is, is when god makes a promise to
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- Us, he's good for it.
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- You can take it to the bank.
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- He always keeps his promises.
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- And in fact, every time you see a rainbow, it's a reminder that
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- God keeps his promises because the rainbow is a symbol of this
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- Covenant that he made with humanity after noah and his
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- Family got out of the ark and landed safely.
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- Now the lord was promising something very special to them,
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- And god keeps his promises to us.
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- Someone said that there are at least 3,000 promises from god to
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- Us in the bible.
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- Well, what are they?
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- Here's just a few.
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- God promises to forgive you of all of your sins, 1 john 1:9
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- Says, "if we will confess our sin,
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- He is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and cleanse
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- Us from all unrighteousness."
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- God also promises to give us peace in our hearts when we're
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- Tempted to worry because we're told in philippians 4:6, "don't
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- Worry about anything, pray about everything, and the peace of god
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- That passes all understanding will guard your heart and mind
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- In christ jesus."
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- Jesus promises that he will come again to our world.
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- That's right.
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- Jesus said in john 14:3, "i will come again."
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- And he means what he says, and he says what he means.
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- So, we're talking a little bit about noah last time how evil
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- Things were and how noah managed to walk with god when no one
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- Else did, but what does it mean to walk with god?
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- It's really quite simple.
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- If you take a walk with someone, the idea is to get in cadence
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- With each other, so you can have a conversation.
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- And there's actually a verse in the book of amos that gives
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- An insight.
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- It says, "shall two walk together unless they
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- Have agreed."
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- Unless they have agreed, so to walk with god is to be in
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- Agreement with him.
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- In fact, this could be translated, "can two walk
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- Together unless they've made an appointment."
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- So you have an appointment with god, and i suggest you keep it.
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- You remember that adam had an appointment with god or he would
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- Meet with the lord in the cool of the day, and one day the lord
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- Showed up in the garden of eden and adam was hiding, why?
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- Because he had sinned against the lord and god wants you to
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- Keep your appointment.
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- You know, some people are always late for everything.
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- Are you one of those people?
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- Who are the late people?
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- Raise your hand.
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- See, while you're raising your hand, you're owning that.
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- You're the late people.
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- Always late, always 15 minutes late, right?
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- Why is that?
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- You don't wanna be late for your appointment with god.
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- How many of you are punctual and always on time?
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- Raise your hand.
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- Oh, a few more of those people.
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- Okay, now let me ask you another question.
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- How many of you who are punctual are married to a late person,
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- Raise your hand.
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- Interesting, welcome to my world.
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- I won't say who's who, but you might be able to figure it out.
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- But anyway, and speaking of marriage, the word "unless they
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- Have agreed" also speaks of a betrothal.
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- "can two walk together unless they've been joined as if in
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- Marriage," and the picture of us being married to christ is used
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- Many times in scripture.
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- He's the groom or the bride, right?
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- And my wife and i, you know, being married so many years, i
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- Know what she's gonna do, and she often knows the same
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- About me.
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- I'll forget something, she'll remember it.
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- She remembers, see and we have, between us, we have one complete
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- Brain, right?
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- But here's the idea, i'm getting in sync with god.
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- I know what god thinks about this.
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- How do i know what god thinks about it?
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- Because i read the bible, and the bible reveals god to me.
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- Number two, noah was a witness for god.
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- He was a witness for god, in 2 peter, he's described as a
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- "preacher of righteousness."
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- You know, though, he didn't have a lot of converts.
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- In fact, he didn't have any.
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- He lived 950 years and effectively outside of his
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- Family did not have a single convert.
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- But he stands as an example to all of those faithful seed
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- Sowers out there.
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- You know, it's not my job to convert anybody.
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- It is my job to faithfully communicate the gospel.
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- So maybe you've shared the gospel with many people and no
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- One has ever responded.
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- Maybe you might wanna think of breath mints.
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- I'm not sure.
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- Stop eating raw garlic before you engage people.
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- There might be some extenuating circumstances here we could
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- Look at.
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- But apart from that, your job is to deliver the message and leave
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- The results in the hands of god.
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- Well, noah did that, but he did reach his family because hebrews
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- 11:7 says, "by faith, noah being divinely warned of things not
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- Yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving
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- Of his household."
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- Number three, noah worked for god.
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- He worked for god, so the lord gave him a pretty
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- Interesting job.
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- He said, "i want you to effectively build a giant boat."
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- Now, there was no body of water nearby, it had never rained
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- Before, and noah's building a giant boat, effectively like a
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- Big box that was unsinkable.
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- And one of the greatest practical acts of faith in all
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- Of history, noah cut down that first gopher wood tree to build
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- This ark.
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- You know, the bible doesn't tell us he was a carpenter.
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- He certainly wasn't a shipbuilder, but god called an
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- Unqualified man to do something.
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- God does not call the qualified, he qualifies the called.
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- Consider this fact, the ark was built by amateurs, but the
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- Titanic was built by professionals.
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- Okay, so sometimes it works out just fine.
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- Now when we think of the ark, we think this is impossible that
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- You could get all of those animals inside of that ark.
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- Well, it's not impossible at all, and they didn't have to get
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- Every animal in there.
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- They were only to carry air-breathing, land-dwelling
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- Animals, and creeping things, and winged animals like birds,
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- Aquatic life like fish, and whales, and other amphibious
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- Creatures obviously could be in the ocean around.
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- They didn't have to have every breed of dog, for instance, out
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- Today, they just had to have the original two dogs before we
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- Started coming up with all of these weird "oodles."
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- Someone decided a poodle should be bred with every other breed
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- Of dog.
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- We have labradoodles and all kinds of other variations,
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- Jackapoodles, boodles, i looked this up.
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- There's even a german woodle, which is a german wire-haired
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- Standard poodle.
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- Look, how many of you own a labradoodle?
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- Raise your hand up.
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- Okay, let me just insult your dog for a moment if you
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- Don't mind.
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- This is my opinion.
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- I've thought of getting one.
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- They're very cute and they're hyper-allergenic, right?
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- Okay, we know that, so they don't shed.
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- Okay, it's nice.
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- But everyone i know that has one of these dogs, these dogs all
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- Seem to be collectively stupid, and i've tried to figure it out.
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- They run around like they're insane.
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- Like what is wrong with this dog?
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- Other dogs will sit quietly.
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- You can pet them.
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- They'll--the labradoodles like, you know, just, i don't know
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- What it is.
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- And so, i googled it: "why are labradoodles so stupid?"
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- And said something interesting happens because labs are not
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- Stupid and poodles are not stupid, but when you get the
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- Oodles going, something happens.
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- But i also read that it's because they're very hyperactive
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- And they need to be--attention given to them.
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- Okay, whatever, but i shouldn't have said any of these things.
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- I know i've offended someone, i'm sorry.
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- I feel like i've gone after the cat people long enough.
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- Now it's time to just offend everybody out there i could
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- Possibly offend.
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- Greg: have you ever had a promise made to you that
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- Was broken?
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- Or maybe you made a promise to someone else that you broke?
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- Well, i've got good news for you.
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- When god makes a promise, you can take it to the bank.
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- Every time you see a rainbow, it's a reminder that god keeps
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- His promises because the rainbow was given as a symbol of a
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- Covenant he made with mankind to never judge us again by water.
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- And the bible is filled with promises to believers.
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- Someone said that there's at least 3,000 specific promises
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- Given to christians in the bible.
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- Here's a few of them.
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- God promises that he will forgive you of your sins, 1 john
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- 1:9 says, "if we will confess our sin, he's faithful and just
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- To forgive us our sin and cleanse us from
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- All unrighteousness."
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- Now, that's an amazing promise.
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- The bible tells us that god will completely change us because
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- We're told in 2 corinthians, "if any man be in christ, he is an
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- Altogether different kind of person.
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- The old things have passed away, and behold, everything becomes
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- Fresh and new."
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- God has promised to provide our needs.
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- Jesus said, "don't be like the non-believers.
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- All they worry about is what they're gonna eat, what they're
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- Gonna drink, what they're gonna wear."
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- He said, "but seek first the kingdom of god, and all these
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- Things shall be added unto you."
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- Let me add one more.
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- Jesus promised he will come again.
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- Jesus said, "i will come again."
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- He could come at any moment, so we wanna always be watching and
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- We wanna always be ready.
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- But just remember this, god keeps his promises.
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- Greg: let's think for a few moments about the spiritual life
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- Of noah.
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- I mean this man, you know, really without any support to
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- Speak of, followed the will of god.
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- And he sat in this boat for all of this time and he waited on
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- The lord.
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- And then when they finally reached dry land, bringing me to
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- Point number four, he remembered god.
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- And i'm really impressed by genesis 8:20 that says, "noah
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- Built an altar to the lord."
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- I mean, hey, if you've been cooped up in a boat for that
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- Long wouldn't you wanna just run around for a while?
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- Noah said, "no, i'm gonna bring a sacrifice to god.
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- I'm gonna remember that god did all of this for us."
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- And i think it's so important to remember the lord.
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- There's so many ways that we can do it.
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- You know, one way is just to say grace over a meal.
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- I like that, don't you?
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- I love when i see a family just bow for a moment of prayer and
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- Ask god to bless our food.
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- By the way, if you're asked to say grace, don't go too long.
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- Just, you know, it's just, "thank you, lord, you provided
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- This food."
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- Don't wait for the food to get cold.
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- Just don't be that person.
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- You probably have a labradoodle too.
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- I don't know, i said it.
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- Probably in the restaurant with you, right, 'cause it's your
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- Emotional support dog, right?
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- But giving thanks, that's a simple way.
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- When you take a portion of your income, the tithe and offering,
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- And say, "we're gonna give faithfully to the lord."
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- That's a way to remember the lord.
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- When you get up in the morning, you need to start the day with
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- Scripture and prayer, that's a way to remember the lord.
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- When you set sunday aside and say, "this is the lord's day.
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- There might be things we can do, but we're gonna go worship the
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- Lord in church."
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- Okay, so this is great.
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- Everything's going great in this story.
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- I love it.
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- It's almost like a fairy tale, you know, the ark is on dry
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- Land, and now god puts a rainbow in the sky, and he makes a
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- Covenant with all of mankind.
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- And if it's a movie, you can see the credits are starting to
- 00:13:04.994 --> 00:13:07.797
- Roll, the camera's pulling back, there's the ark in the
- 00:13:07.797 --> 00:13:11.367
- Background, there's the rainbow, there's noah's tears slowly
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- Falling down his face.
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- The music is swelling, the animals are all standing around.
- 00:13:16.505 --> 00:13:19.608
- It's awesome, but it's not a fairy tale.
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- It's a bible story.
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- And bible stories are true, and they're historical, and now we
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- Read of some things that noah did that kind of shock us, but
- 00:13:29.285 --> 00:13:33.823
- Actually they shouldn't shock us at all.
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- We see noah messing up big time in genesis chapter 9.
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- Let's read about it.
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- Verse 20, "after the flood, noah began to cultivate the ground,
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- And he planted a vineyard.
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- One day he drank some wine that he had made, and he became drunk
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- And lay naked inside his tent.
- 00:13:52.508 --> 00:13:54.510
- Ham, the father of canaan, saw that his father was naked and
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- Went outside and told his brothers.
- 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:00.616
- Then shem and japheth took a robe, and held it over their
- 00:14:00.616 --> 00:14:03.652
- Shoulders, and backed into the tent to cover their father.
- 00:14:03.652 --> 00:14:07.456
- As they did this, they looked the other way so they would not
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- See him naked.
- 00:14:10.326 --> 00:14:11.694
- When noah woke up from his stupor, he learned what ham, the
- 00:14:11.694 --> 00:14:15.297
- Youngest son, had done.
- 00:14:15.297 --> 00:14:16.632
- Then he cursed canaan, the son of ham: "may canaan be cursed!
- 00:14:16.632 --> 00:14:20.469
- May he be the lowest of servants to his relatives."
- 00:14:20.469 --> 00:14:23.305
- Then noah said, "may the lord, god of shem, be blessed, and may
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- Canaan be his servant!
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- May god expand the territory of japheth!"
- 00:14:28.210 --> 00:14:30.980
- And now, "may japheth share the prosperity of shem, and may
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- Canaan be his servant."
- 00:14:35.718 --> 00:14:37.119
- Noah lived another 350 years after the great flood.
- 00:14:37.119 --> 00:14:41.257
- He lived 950 years, and then he died."
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- Wow, okay, what?
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- Why did this happen?
- 00:14:46.829 --> 00:14:48.564
- Because the bible is an honest book.
- 00:14:48.564 --> 00:14:50.599
- And if one of our heroes messes up, we're gonna read about it,
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- And we're gonna learn from it.
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- Just like we learned from their positive example, we'll learn
- 00:14:55.437 --> 00:14:58.307
- From their negative example of things to not do.
- 00:14:58.307 --> 00:15:03.245
- First point i would bring up, the fall of noah shows that
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- Anyone can fall into sin.
- 00:15:07.783 --> 00:15:10.085
- Anyone can fall into sin.
- 00:15:10.085 --> 00:15:12.354
- No one is above or beyond temptation.
- 00:15:12.354 --> 00:15:15.824
- It's ironic because when noah is introduced to us in genesis 6:9,
- 00:15:15.824 --> 00:15:20.296
- It says, "he was a righteous man blameless among the people of
- 00:15:20.296 --> 00:15:24.166
- His time, and he walked with god."
- 00:15:24.166 --> 00:15:26.068
- Then, of course, we're told, "he was a preacher
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- Of righteousness."
- 00:15:28.971 --> 00:15:31.206
- There are few characters in the bible with credentials
- 00:15:31.206 --> 00:15:34.476
- Like this.
- 00:15:34.476 --> 00:15:35.811
- He's a genuine hero of the faith slipping.
- 00:15:35.811 --> 00:15:39.548
- But let me say something that might surprise you, but i want
- 00:15:39.548 --> 00:15:41.951
- You to think about this.
- 00:15:41.951 --> 00:15:43.852
- You might be surprised to know that sometimes those who have
- 00:15:43.852 --> 00:15:47.022
- Known the lord longer can be more vulnerable to slipping than
- 00:15:47.022 --> 00:15:52.261
- The person who is younger in the faith.
- 00:15:52.261 --> 00:15:55.297
- Take a small child, a small child knows they need
- 00:15:55.297 --> 00:15:58.600
- Their parent.
- 00:15:58.600 --> 00:15:59.969
- They call out to their mommy or their daddy for everything.
- 00:15:59.969 --> 00:16:03.339
- They can't even feed themselves yet.
- 00:16:03.339 --> 00:16:05.341
- They're dependent upon their parent.
- 00:16:05.341 --> 00:16:07.209
- But as they get older, they become more independent.
- 00:16:07.209 --> 00:16:10.646
- When they become teenagers, they don't even want to see you
- 00:16:10.646 --> 00:16:13.449
- Anymore, right?
- 00:16:13.449 --> 00:16:14.850
- But that's the whole point, isn't it?
- 00:16:14.850 --> 00:16:16.285
- We're raising them to stand on their own two feet and think
- 00:16:16.285 --> 00:16:18.854
- For themself.
- 00:16:18.854 --> 00:16:20.289
- And as we grow in our faith, initially we're so dependent
- 00:16:20.289 --> 00:16:24.460
- On god.
- 00:16:24.460 --> 00:16:25.794
- But after a few years have gone by, now a decade has passed, now
- 00:16:25.794 --> 00:16:29.498
- Two decades, now three decades, you've acquired a little bit of
- 00:16:29.498 --> 00:16:32.601
- Bible knowledge, haven't you?
- 00:16:32.601 --> 00:16:34.370
- You've worn out a few bibles.
- 00:16:34.370 --> 00:16:36.572
- You know a few things.
- 00:16:36.572 --> 00:16:38.173
- In fact, you think you probably know more than you
- 00:16:38.173 --> 00:16:40.976
- Actually know.
- 00:16:40.976 --> 00:16:42.678
- Now you're a sermon connoisseur.
- 00:16:42.678 --> 00:16:45.914
- You know, "i like this one guy's messaging, but i don't like the
- 00:16:45.914 --> 00:16:49.518
- Other and i disagree with him," so you're an expert
- 00:16:49.518 --> 00:16:52.021
- On everything.
- 00:16:52.021 --> 00:16:53.489
- And here's the problem, you start lowering your guard a
- 00:16:53.489 --> 00:16:56.925
- Little bit, and you think, "i know all these things, and i've
- 00:16:56.925 --> 00:16:59.928
- Grown so much."
- 00:16:59.928 --> 00:17:01.296
- Okay, that's great, but wait, be on guard because you might find
- 00:17:01.296 --> 00:17:06.168
- Yourself falling into some kind of sin.
- 00:17:06.168 --> 00:17:09.905
- Consider this, noah's not the only one who messed up later
- 00:17:09.905 --> 00:17:14.276
- In life.
- 00:17:14.276 --> 00:17:15.611
- Moses did too.
- 00:17:15.611 --> 00:17:17.279
- Here's moses, the great law giver.
- 00:17:17.279 --> 00:17:20.249
- Moses, who delivered the israelites from the bondage of
- 00:17:20.249 --> 00:17:23.018
- Pharaoh and went to the wilderness with them.
- 00:17:23.018 --> 00:17:26.088
- He comes to the very brink of the promised land, and he's
- 00:17:26.088 --> 00:17:28.924
- Unable to enter in because he sinned against god.
- 00:17:28.924 --> 00:17:32.561
- And the lord did not let him enter into the land.
- 00:17:32.561 --> 00:17:35.731
- David too, the great king of israel, sinned later in life.
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- When he should have been leading his troops into battle, he
- 00:17:40.135 --> 00:17:42.871
- Was idle.
- 00:17:42.871 --> 00:17:44.239
- He's in his 50s, he's kicking back, and he's thinking he's
- 00:17:44.239 --> 00:17:47.743
- Above it all, and he falls into sin.
- 00:17:47.743 --> 00:17:50.112
- And david's own son, solomon, also fell into gross sin in his
- 00:17:50.112 --> 00:17:55.584
- Later years.
- 00:17:55.584 --> 00:17:57.119
- Solomon was blessed with supernatural wisdom that was so
- 00:17:57.119 --> 00:18:00.389
- Great people came from around the world to sit at his feet
- 00:18:00.389 --> 00:18:03.759
- And learn.
- 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:05.127
- But then, solomon went on a sinful binge sampling everything
- 00:18:05.127 --> 00:18:10.132
- This world has to offer.
- 00:18:10.132 --> 00:18:12.234
- So, think of these great men of god who messed up later in life.
- 00:18:12.234 --> 00:18:18.373
- You see, noah had done the big work already.
- 00:18:18.373 --> 00:18:21.343
- You know, he's built the ark, he's landed the ark, he's
- 00:18:21.343 --> 00:18:24.480
- Accomplished the purpose.
- 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:26.482
- Now he's thinking, "oh, and i've worked awfully hard.
- 00:18:26.482 --> 00:18:28.517
- I think i'll just plant a vineyard and enjoy the fruit of
- 00:18:28.517 --> 00:18:30.886
- My labor," and you know what happens here in this story.
- 00:18:30.886 --> 00:18:35.424
- And this also brings up the destructive power of alcohol.
- 00:18:35.424 --> 00:18:40.229
- Look at verse 21, "he became drunk and lay naked."
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- Do i have to tell you it's a sin to get drunk?
- 00:18:45.534 --> 00:18:48.737
- This comes as a revelation to some people.
- 00:18:48.737 --> 00:18:51.607
- The bible tells us "to not be drunk with wine," and i know
- 00:18:51.607 --> 00:18:56.545
- About the destructive power of alcohol.
- 00:18:56.545 --> 00:18:59.414
- The first 17 years of my life i lived in an alcoholic home.
- 00:18:59.414 --> 00:19:03.285
- My mom didn't just drink, she was a raging alcoholic,
- 00:19:03.285 --> 00:19:08.123
- Screaming and yelling every night, throwing things, passing
- 00:19:08.123 --> 00:19:11.727
- Out, sometimes not coming home at all.
- 00:19:11.727 --> 00:19:15.631
- And my mother, who was a beautiful woman, at the age of
- 00:19:15.631 --> 00:19:20.369
- 70 looked like she was 90 or beyond, because the effects of
- 00:19:20.369 --> 00:19:25.440
- Her drinking had taken its toll on her, including a head-on
- 00:19:25.440 --> 00:19:29.378
- Collision that she had while driving drunk one night,
- 00:19:29.378 --> 00:19:32.714
- It was so sad what drinking did to her life.
- 00:19:32.714 --> 00:19:36.151
- And i saw the ruined relationships and all the rest
- 00:19:36.151 --> 00:19:39.721
- Of it.
- 00:19:39.721 --> 00:19:41.056
- And i've seen to this day how alcohol destroys people, and
- 00:19:41.056 --> 00:19:45.093
- Even christians, and sometimes even people in leadership, so
- 00:19:45.093 --> 00:19:49.765
- This is something we need to be so careful of.
- 00:19:49.765 --> 00:19:52.634
- Think of how many lives have been destroyed through it.
- 00:19:52.634 --> 00:19:54.536
- I love how quiet it gets when i address the subject.
- 00:19:54.536 --> 00:19:59.041
- It's almost as bad as when i was talking about labradoodles.
- 00:19:59.041 --> 00:20:02.578
- And don't get me started on drunk labradoodles, that's a
- 00:20:02.578 --> 00:20:05.280
- Whole another topic.
- 00:20:05.280 --> 00:20:08.250
- But noah's life stands as a warning to every person who
- 00:20:08.250 --> 00:20:12.821
- Follows jesus because nothing is recorded about him after
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- His fall.
- 00:20:18.660 --> 00:20:19.995
- It's like the next 300 years of his life are a blank.
- 00:20:19.995 --> 00:20:22.864
- You don't want that to happen.
- 00:20:22.864 --> 00:20:24.600
- It's good to run a race well, but it's also very important to
- 00:20:24.600 --> 00:20:29.238
- Finish a race.
- 00:20:29.238 --> 00:20:31.206
- If you're holding the first place position in a race of ten
- 00:20:31.206 --> 00:20:35.043
- Laps for the first nine laps, and you collapse and fall in the
- 00:20:35.043 --> 00:20:38.447
- Tenth lap, it's all for nothing.
- 00:20:38.447 --> 00:20:40.882
- And so, here is a man at the end of his life messing up.
- 00:20:40.882 --> 00:20:43.952
- Thank god there's still restoration even when we fail,
- 00:20:43.952 --> 00:20:47.522
- But we wanna be so careful because look at what his son
- 00:20:47.522 --> 00:20:50.959
- Ham does.
- 00:20:50.959 --> 00:20:52.327
- He sees his father in this compromised state, and by the
- 00:20:52.327 --> 00:20:54.863
- Way, the bible suggests he deliberately put himself in
- 00:20:54.863 --> 00:20:58.734
- That state.
- 00:20:58.734 --> 00:21:00.068
- Not just that he was drunk, but scholars tell us, "the hebrew
- 00:21:00.068 --> 00:21:03.672
- Word for uncovered indicates a deliberate act, not a mere
- 00:21:03.672 --> 00:21:07.442
- Unconscious effort of drunkenness," so he was
- 00:21:07.442 --> 00:21:10.078
- Intentionally living in a bad way here.
- 00:21:10.078 --> 00:21:14.316
- And he should have never done this, but okay, he had done it,
- 00:21:14.316 --> 00:21:16.985
- All right.
- 00:21:16.985 --> 00:21:18.353
- So his son ham sees him and thinks, "oh this, i'm gonna tell
- 00:21:18.353 --> 00:21:21.156
- Everyone how badly my father messed up," and what a shame
- 00:21:21.156 --> 00:21:24.926
- That was.
- 00:21:24.926 --> 00:21:26.261
- The other brothers did not react that way.
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- What do we do when we see someone who is godly falling
- 00:21:28.030 --> 00:21:31.133
- Into sin?
- 00:21:31.133 --> 00:21:32.467
- Should we take a perverse delight in it?
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- Should we make sure we tell as many people as possible
- 00:21:35.404 --> 00:21:38.073
- About it?
- 00:21:38.073 --> 00:21:39.441
- By the way some people behave, you would think the bible says
- 00:21:39.441 --> 00:21:41.910
- Of a brother or a sister is overtaken in sin, you who are
- 00:21:41.910 --> 00:21:45.614
- Spiritual should kick them when they're down and tell as many
- 00:21:45.614 --> 00:21:48.784
- People as possible.
- 00:21:48.784 --> 00:21:50.786
- Well, that's not what the bible says.
- 00:21:50.786 --> 00:21:52.187
- It says the opposite, "if a brother or a sister is overtaken
- 00:21:52.187 --> 00:21:56.358
- In sin," we're told in scripture, "you who are
- 00:21:56.358 --> 00:22:00.195
- Spiritual should seek to restore them in a spirit of weakness,
- 00:22:00.195 --> 00:22:05.901
- Considering yourself, lest you also be tempted."
- 00:22:05.901 --> 00:22:09.237
- In other words, be humble about this 'cause it could be you.
- 00:22:09.237 --> 00:22:13.775
- That could have happened to you.
- 00:22:13.775 --> 00:22:16.144
- And our objective is never to destroy, our objective is always
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- To restore.
- 00:22:20.082 --> 00:22:21.850
- I know it's hard.
- 00:22:21.850 --> 00:22:23.285
- Because when you confront someone who's in sin, well,
- 00:22:23.285 --> 00:22:26.822
- Let's go back to drinking again since you love that subject
- 00:22:26.822 --> 00:22:29.257
- So much.
- 00:22:29.257 --> 00:22:31.026
- And so, they're drinking and you're seeing it's ruining
- 00:22:31.026 --> 00:22:33.962
- Their life.
- 00:22:33.962 --> 00:22:35.297
- You're seeing they're making horrible decisions, "man, you
- 00:22:35.297 --> 00:22:36.665
- Gotta stop doing that.
- 00:22:36.665 --> 00:22:37.999
- What are you doing?
- 00:22:37.999 --> 00:22:39.368
- Why are you living that way?"
- 00:22:39.368 --> 00:22:40.702
- "hey man, don't judge my journey," they say.
- 00:22:40.702 --> 00:22:42.237
- Or they say something more like,
- 00:22:42.237 --> 00:22:43.672
- "hey, don't judge my journey," okay.
- 00:22:43.672 --> 00:22:48.877
- "yeah, i'll tell you what, you gotta change your course.
- 00:22:48.877 --> 00:22:52.881
- I love you.
- 00:22:52.881 --> 00:22:54.216
- I'm saying this because i care about you."
- 00:22:54.216 --> 00:22:56.251
- See, that--my objective is to help them, to get them back on
- 00:22:56.251 --> 00:22:59.421
- Their feet again.
- 00:22:59.421 --> 00:23:01.156
- Because i'm told in james 5:19, "if anyone should wander from
- 00:23:01.156 --> 00:23:05.193
- The truth and someone should bring him back, remember this,
- 00:23:05.193 --> 00:23:08.563
- Whoever turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his
- 00:23:08.563 --> 00:23:12.134
- Soul from death and cover a multitude of sins."
- 00:23:12.134 --> 00:23:15.737
- All right, let's wrap this up and review what we've
- 00:23:15.737 --> 00:23:18.740
- Seen together.
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- If you're taking notes, number one, god keeps his promises.
- 00:23:20.075 --> 00:23:24.112
- No matter what you're going through right now, god's gonna
- 00:23:24.112 --> 00:23:26.114
- Be faithful to you.
- 00:23:26.114 --> 00:23:28.717
- I love that story when jesus said to his disciples, "let's
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- Cross over to the other side of the sea of galilee."
- 00:23:33.422 --> 00:23:37.592
- Then they hit a horrible storm, they had the spirit of life, but
- 00:23:37.592 --> 00:23:41.463
- They made it to the other side.
- 00:23:41.463 --> 00:23:43.632
- He didn't say, "let's go to the middle of the sea of galilee and
- 00:23:43.632 --> 00:23:46.535
- I'll drown in a big storm."
- 00:23:46.535 --> 00:23:48.403
- Had he said that, i would have never boarded that boat.
- 00:23:48.403 --> 00:23:52.407
- He said, "let's get over to the other side."
- 00:23:52.407 --> 00:23:55.210
- He doesn't promise smooth sailing, but he does promise
- 00:23:55.210 --> 00:23:58.146
- A safe arrival.
- 00:23:58.146 --> 00:24:00.182
- And the same is true for us.
- 00:24:00.182 --> 00:24:02.217
- You're gonna get to the other side.
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- You're going to make it.
- 00:24:03.919 --> 00:24:05.287
- God who has begun a work will complete it under the day of
- 00:24:05.287 --> 00:24:08.924
- Jesus christ.
- 00:24:08.924 --> 00:24:10.292
- It may not be smooth sailing, but you will ultimately have
- 00:24:10.292 --> 00:24:14.062
- A safe arrival.
- 00:24:14.062 --> 00:24:15.464
- Remember, god never forgets about you.
- 00:24:15.464 --> 00:24:19.000
- Even if things are hard for you right now circumstantially,
- 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:23.004
- Maybe you feel as though you've not heard from the lord, just
- 00:24:23.004 --> 00:24:26.408
- Hang in there, and hold on, and don't forget about him.
- 00:24:26.408 --> 00:24:30.178
- Thirdly, you should never lower your guard or rest on your
- 00:24:30.178 --> 00:24:33.381
- Laurels spiritually.
- 00:24:33.381 --> 00:24:36.218
- Don't think you're above it all.
- 00:24:36.218 --> 00:24:37.953
- Don't think you could not fall into sin because you could, i
- 00:24:37.953 --> 00:24:41.857
- Could, any of us could.
- 00:24:41.857 --> 00:24:43.525
- Number four, if someone has fallen into sin, our goal should
- 00:24:43.525 --> 00:24:46.695
- Always be to restore them, not destroy them, but help them get
- 00:24:46.695 --> 00:24:50.932
- Back on their feet again.
- 00:24:50.932 --> 00:24:53.101
- So, noah was effectively a last days believer.
- 00:24:53.101 --> 00:24:58.473
- He was waiting for the judgment of god to come through a flood.
- 00:24:58.473 --> 00:25:02.577
- We too are last days believers.
- 00:25:02.577 --> 00:25:05.480
- Jesus said, "as it was in the days of noah, so also will it be
- 00:25:05.480 --> 00:25:09.284
- When the son of man comes back again."
- 00:25:09.284 --> 00:25:12.487
- And what did he tell us?
- 00:25:12.487 --> 00:25:13.822
- After that, he said, "so two men will be working in the field,
- 00:25:13.822 --> 00:25:17.259
- One will be taken, the other left.
- 00:25:17.259 --> 00:25:18.827
- Two will be in a bed, one will be taken, and the other left."
- 00:25:18.827 --> 00:25:21.897
- Then he concludes, "so stay awake."
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- Greg: hi, my name is greg laurie.
- 00:25:29.871 --> 00:25:31.540
- I started searching for god at a very young age.
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- And my search led me into a lot of wrong directions, including
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- Drug use.
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- And i almost destroyed my life completely, but someone told me
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- About jesus christ, and it changed my life forever.
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- And i want you to know that whatever course your life is on
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- Right now, it can change if you realize there's a god in heaven
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- Who loves you, and he has a plan for your life.
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- I prayed this prayer to ask jesus into my life at the age of
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- 17, but here i am at the age of 70, and i can tell you i made
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- The best choice i ever could make.
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- You can make that same choice yourself.
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- You could just say, "jesus, help me, forgive me of my sin.
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- I want to go to heaven when i die.
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- I want a relationship with you."
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- If you would pray a prayer like that, god will hear you and
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- Answer you.
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