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Greg Laurie - God's Purpose For Us

January 13, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - God's Purpose For Us
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - God's Purpose For Us | January 13, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: god can bring a genesis in your life.
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  • Again, genesis means beginning.
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  • God can bring a new beginning in your life.
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  • He can make all things new.
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  • We've all done things we regret, we all, we've all said things we
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  • Wish we had not said.
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  • But god can change that if we come to him and bring our lives
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  • To him.
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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, i heard about an older man who was speaking to a
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  • Younger man, and this young man was a law student.
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  • And so the older gentleman asked the younger guy, "hey, what do
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  • You want to do when you graduate?"
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  • And he said, "well, i'd like to get, you know, a position with a
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  • Law firm and make some good money."
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  • And the older man said, "okay, then what?"
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  • And then the guy said, "well, i'd like to get married and have
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  • Some children and eventually get a good home to live in."
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  • The older man said, "right, then what?"
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  • "well, then i would like to maybe vacation, you know, a
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  • Little bit more and eventually travel around the world with
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  • My wife."
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  • "yeah, okay, then what?"
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  • "well, i guess i would like to pass my money on to my children
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  • So they could live a life as comfortable as i've been able
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  • To live."
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  • The older man said, "okay, then what?"
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  • "well, then i guess i die."
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  • And the older man said, "then what?"
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  • Then what?
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  • You know, we can spend our entire life chasing nothing.
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  • It's been said, "if you aim at nothing, you're bound to
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  • Hit it."
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  • And there's a lot of people who are walking aimlessly through
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  • Life with no real meaning or purpose.
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  • I'll tell you "then what," then comes eternity.
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  • God created us for a purpose and on purpose.
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  • God created you on purpose and for a purpose.
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  • There is a purpose for your life.
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  • But i read a survey recently that said 58% of young adults
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  • Report experiencing little or no purpose or meaning in
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  • Their lives.
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  • Is that a description of you?
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  • Here's what you need to know.
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  • God has a plan and a purpose just for you.
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  • It said of david in acts chapter 13, "he served god's purpose in
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  • His generation, then he fell asleep," which is another way of
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  • Saying he died.
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  • So you have a life you're gonna live on this earth, as do i, and
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  • We're here to serve a purpose.
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  • So my question for you is, are you serving that purpose that
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  • God has for you?
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  • You say, "well, i'm not sure.
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  • What should that purpose be?"
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  • The apostle paul had it right when he said, "my determined
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  • Purpose in life is to know him and become progressively more
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  • Deeply and intimately acquainted with him."
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  • That's his purpose, and that should be our purpose as well.
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  • And we find god's purpose for us in this first book of the bible.
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  • The word genesis means beginning.
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  • It's a beginning or creation of something, its starting point.
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  • In genesis, we find the greatest story ever told.
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  • The story of jesus.
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  • In genesis chapter 3, we have the first messianic prophecy,
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  • The first verse that speaks of a coming savior that will arrive
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  • On our planet.
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  • The bible says, "christ was crucified from the foundation of
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  • The world."
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  • And that simply means that god knew man would blow it.
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  • God knew that adam and eve would eat of the forbidden fruit.
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  • And, by the way, if you were in the garden, you would have done
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  • The same thing.
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  • God knew that we would sin, and god made a provision for
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  • Our sin.
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  • But the book of genesis tells us the big story.
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  • But here's the thing that we wanna start with.
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  • Point number one, the book of genesis begins with god.
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  • So, if you're taking notes, there's point number one, the
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  • Book of genesis begins with god, with this simple verse, genesis
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  • 1:1, "in the beginning, god created the heavens and
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  • The earth."
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  • Look up on the screen, let's repeat this together, "in the
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  • Beginning, god created the heavens and the earth."
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  • How many of you believe that verse, raise your hand up?
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  • Wow, if you believe that verse, it changes everything.
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  • If you believe that verse, you'll have no problem with the
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  • Miracles of the bible, like the virgin birth of jesus and his
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  • Resurrection from the dead.
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  • You'll have no problem with jesus walking on water or
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  • Raising others from the grave, as well, because it all comes
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  • Back to, "in the beginning, god created the heavens and
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  • The earth."
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  • And, if this is true--and i believe it is, and it sounds
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  • Like you believe it's true as well--if god created the
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  • Heavens and the earth, then i think he's more than adequate to
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  • Meet your needs, whatever they may be.
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  • Genesis is the ground floor in the foundation of the
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  • Entire bible.
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  • Without the book of genesis, the bible would be incomprehensible.
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  • The book of genesis gives vital information concerning the
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  • Origin of all things and, therefore, the meaning of
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  • All things.
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  • So who wrote the book of genesis?
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  • Well, short answer, god did, but god gave it to moses.
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  • And jesus himself attested to the fact that moses is the
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  • Author of genesis.
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  • And, not only did moses write genesis, he also wrote
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  • Leviticus, numbers, and deuteronomy at around 1450 bc.
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  • So think about this for a moment.
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  • On christmas eve 1968, astronauts frank borman, james
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  • Lovell, and williams and--or william anders--orbited the
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  • Moon on apollo 8.
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  • And they became aware of the presence of god
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  • In outer space, and they publicly read the first 10
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  • Verses of genesis chapter 1 to a listening world.
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  • So let's read now those verses that the astronauts read in
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  • Space to a listening world.
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  • Genesis chapter 1, "in the beginning, god created the
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  • Heavens and the earth.
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  • The earth was without form, and void, and darkness was on the
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  • Face of the deep.
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  • And the spirit of god was hovering over the face of
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  • The waters.
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  • Then god said, 'let there be light,' and there was light.
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  • And god saw the light, that it was good, and god divided the
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  • Light from the darkness.
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  • And god called the light day, and the darkness he
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  • Called night.
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  • So the evening and the morning were the first day.
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  • God said, 'let there be a firmament--'" or a space--"'in
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  • The midst of the waters, and divide the waters from
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  • The waters.'
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  • Then god made the firmament, and divided the waters which were
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  • Under the firmament from the waters which were above the
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  • Firmament, and it was so.
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  • And god called the firmament heaven.
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  • And so the evening and morning were the second day.
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  • Then god said, 'let the waters under the heaven be gathered
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  • Together in one place, and let the dry land appear,' and it
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  • Was so.
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  • And god called the dry land earth and the gathering together
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  • Of the waters, he called seas.
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  • And god saw that it was good."
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  • There it is, the book of genesis.
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  • So here's point number two, god is triune, that is, three in
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  • One--one being eternally existing in three persons.
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  • Let me say that again, god is triune, meaning three in one,
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  • Eternally existing in three persons.
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  • In fact, we see the trinity-- the father, the son, and the
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  • Holy spirit--at work in the creation of all things.
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  • In genesis 3:22 we read god saying, "behold, man has become
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  • One of us."
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  • In genesis 11:6, god says, "let us go down."
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  • And, in genesis 1:26 we read god says, "let us make man."
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  • Wait a second, who's god talking to?
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  • Is this a conversation with angels?
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  • No, because we're not made in the image of angels.
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  • We're made in the image of god.
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  • This is a conversation among the members of the trinity.
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  • Each member of the trinity exists simultaneously, yet each
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  • One is distinct yet perfectly united.
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  • Number three, god is the creator of all things.
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  • Again, genesis 1:1, "in the beginning, god created the
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  • Heavens and the earth."
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  • The word "therefore created" in the hebrew is bara, which
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  • Means to make something out of nothing.
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  • Only god can create; only god can call into existence that
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  • Which has no existence.
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  • Now, if i eliminate god, i have a big problem.
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  • In the beginning, a mass of gasses--well, where did the
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  • Mass of gasses come from?
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  • For that matter, where did the space come from?
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  • That's not the beginning.
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  • So, sooner or later, everyone gets around to asking the
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  • Question, where did god come from?
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  • And there's no easy answer for that because god did not come
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  • From anywhere.
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  • God has always existed.
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  • He is self-existent, and he has existed from the beginning.
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  • In revelation 1:8, he says, "i am the first and the last.
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  • I am the lord god almighty, who was, who is, and who is
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  • To come."
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  • Well, wait, i can't understand that.
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  • Well, check this out.
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  • If god were small enough for your minds, he wouldn't be big
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  • Enough for your needs.
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  • God has always existed.
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  • We read in verse 2, "the earth was without form and void."
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  • And that's pretty much a describe, a description of our
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  • Lives as well; before we knew the lord, darkness filled
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  • Our life.
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  • And god said, "let there be light.
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  • And there was light."
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  • And god brought order to our chaos and hope for our
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  • Hopelessness and light for our darkness.
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  • Point number four, god created all things in six days.
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  • God created all things in six days.
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  • So verse 5 says, "the evening and the morning were the
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  • First day."
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  • Now, were these thousands of years or literal days?
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  • This addresses the older new earth theories.
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  • And, for me personally, i believe they are what they
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  • Are: days.
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  • "well, how could god do all that in a day?"
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  • Go back to genesis 1:1, "in the beginning, god created the
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  • Heavens and the earth."
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  • With god, all things are possible, that's the answer.
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  • Number five, genesis gives a broad-stroked painting of
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  • Creation, not a photograph.
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  • So, in other words, the book of genesis is not a detailed
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  • Account of creation.
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  • If god wanted to give us a detailed account, you could have
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  • Filled the entire bible with that.
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  • But basically the lord gives us one page on creation.
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  • The focus of genesis is not to show us how the heavens go as
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  • Much as it is about how to go to heaven.
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  • Let me say that again, the focus of genesis, and the rest of the
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  • Bible for that matter, is not to show us how the heavens go as
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  • Much as it is there to show us how to go to heaven.
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  • However, that is not to say that the bible is not
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  • Reliable scientifically.
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  • There are so many things that the bible said far before the
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  • Scientists figured it out.
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  • It is the bible that said, "the stars in the sky
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  • Are innumerable.
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  • They're like the sands of the sea."
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  • And scientists and astronomers scoffed at such a ridiculous
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  • Statement because they had counted the stars.
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  • But then they developed a more powerful telescope and found
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  • There were more stars, and they expanded that number, and then
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  • They expanded it again.
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  • And now, with the hubble telescope and others, we realize
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  • There's billions of stars out there, as the bible said.
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  • Scientists tell us there are 400 billion stars in the milky way
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  • Galaxy alone.
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  • Astronomers estimate there are 100 billion galaxies, and each
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  • Galaxy has more than 100 billion stars, and every one of them was
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  • Made by god.
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  • And the bible not only says that, but it says that he has
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  • Named each star.
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  • Why do i bring this up?
  • 00:12:45.897 --> 00:12:47.232
  • Because, whatever you're facing, i think god can handle
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  • It, right?
  • 00:12:50.668 --> 00:12:52.771
  • Think about it.
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  • Listen, i don't believe in the bible because science proves
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  • It's true.
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  • Rather, i believe in the science that the bible proves is true.
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  • My source of truth is the scripture.
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  • Greg: someone recently asked me the question, "if god knows my
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  • Needs, why should i even pray?"
  • 00:13:15.293 --> 00:13:18.863
  • Jesus said, "your father knows what you have need of before you
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  • Ask him."
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  • Okay, listen, prayer is not informing god.
  • 00:13:23.802 --> 00:13:27.372
  • Prayer is inviting god.
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  • Prayer is getting closer to god.
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  • And, through prayer, this is how the lord will provide for us.
  • 00:13:32.844 --> 00:13:36.614
  • Because the bible actually says, "you have not because you
  • 00:13:36.614 --> 00:13:40.418
  • Ask not."
  • 00:13:40.418 --> 00:13:42.086
  • And then jesus said, "ask, and it shall be given.
  • 00:13:42.086 --> 00:13:44.756
  • Seek, and ye shall find.
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  • Knock, and the door shall be opened."
  • 00:13:46.090 --> 00:13:48.159
  • So sometimes the lord allows situations in our life, adverse
  • 00:13:48.159 --> 00:13:53.097
  • Circumstances, a conflict, a storm if you will, or a great
  • 00:13:53.097 --> 00:13:57.635
  • Need, so we will come to him in prayer and be dependent on him.
  • 00:13:57.635 --> 00:14:02.874
  • And so we can see it is god that is gonna come through for us.
  • 00:14:02.874 --> 00:14:07.312
  • Prayer brings us closer to god.
  • 00:14:07.312 --> 00:14:10.582
  • So why should we pray if god already knows what we need or
  • 00:14:10.582 --> 00:14:14.652
  • Knows what he's going to do?
  • 00:14:14.652 --> 00:14:16.054
  • Because jesus said, "men ought always to pray and not give up."
  • 00:14:16.054 --> 00:14:22.594
  • So, whatever you're facing, keep praying about it.
  • 00:14:22.594 --> 00:14:25.830
  • I love the words of paul to the believers in philippi when he
  • 00:14:25.830 --> 00:14:29.500
  • Said, "don't worry about anything.
  • 00:14:29.500 --> 00:14:31.836
  • Pray about everything.
  • 00:14:31.836 --> 00:14:33.805
  • And the peace of god that passes all human understanding will
  • 00:14:33.805 --> 00:14:37.442
  • Guard your heart and mind in christ jesus."
  • 00:14:37.442 --> 00:14:40.545
  • Greg: number six, god created mankind in his image.
  • 00:14:44.649 --> 00:14:49.621
  • He made us in his image.
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  • We're not a highly evolved life form.
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  • We're not evolving from animals.
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  • We're uniquely created and made by god himself.
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  • We are his image bearer.
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  • That's not true of any other created thing.
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  • Genesis 1:26, "god said, 'let us make man in our image according
  • 00:15:06.004 --> 00:15:11.309
  • To our likeness.
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  • Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
  • 00:15:12.644 --> 00:15:15.613
  • Of the air, over the cattle, over the earth and over every
  • 00:15:15.613 --> 00:15:19.484
  • Creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'
  • 00:15:19.484 --> 00:15:22.186
  • So god created man in his own image, in the image of god he
  • 00:15:22.186 --> 00:15:27.025
  • Created him, male and female he created them.
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  • Then he blessed them and said, 'be fruitful and multiply.
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  • Fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish
  • 00:15:33.698 --> 00:15:37.535
  • Of the sea, and the birds of the air, and every living thing that
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  • Moves on the earth.'"
  • 00:15:41.306 --> 00:15:42.974
  • You know, it's interesting to know, after each thing that god
  • 00:15:42.974 --> 00:15:46.044
  • Made, he would say, "it is good."
  • 00:15:46.044 --> 00:15:48.046
  • But, after he created man, he said, "it is very good,"
  • 00:15:48.046 --> 00:15:51.749
  • Genesis 1:31.
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  • Humans are uniquely made in god's image, as i said.
  • 00:15:53.451 --> 00:15:57.588
  • And, i don't know what's going on right now, but people seem to
  • 00:15:57.588 --> 00:16:00.959
  • Be more obsessed with animals than any time i can remember,
  • 00:16:00.959 --> 00:16:04.996
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:16:04.996 --> 00:16:06.464
  • And, by the way, i'm an animal lover, but sometimes that's
  • 00:16:06.464 --> 00:16:10.401
  • Going a little far.
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  • You know, we have to take the animals everywhere with us now.
  • 00:16:11.736 --> 00:16:14.439
  • The animals are in the car, we take the animals into the
  • 00:16:14.439 --> 00:16:17.208
  • Restaurant; we push the dogs around in the strollers, right?
  • 00:16:17.208 --> 00:16:21.312
  • And now people are on planes, and they have to have their
  • 00:16:21.312 --> 00:16:23.648
  • "emotional support animals."
  • 00:16:23.648 --> 00:16:26.184
  • They've got their dogs and their cats.
  • 00:16:26.184 --> 00:16:28.386
  • But i read that other animals that people have taken on
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  • Planes--i'm not making any of these up--pigs, ducks, ponies,
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  • A pony.
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  • I saw a photograph of a pony in the plane.
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  • Look, that plane isn't big enough for the people, much less
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  • With a pony in there.
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  • Someone else brought a kangaroo.
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  • No, i'm not making that up, probably came from australia,
  • 00:16:47.271 --> 00:16:49.841
  • I suppose.
  • 00:16:49.841 --> 00:16:51.209
  • But, now, animals are animals, and we have to see them for what
  • 00:16:51.209 --> 00:16:54.045
  • They are.
  • 00:16:54.045 --> 00:16:55.413
  • But nowadays people treat animals as though they're
  • 00:16:55.413 --> 00:16:57.148
  • Our children.
  • 00:16:57.148 --> 00:16:58.583
  • People will say, "animals are people, too."
  • 00:16:58.583 --> 00:17:00.852
  • No, they aren't, they're animals.
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  • Let's appreciate them for what they are.
  • 00:17:02.754 --> 00:17:05.323
  • Jesus would talk about how our father cares about the animals,
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  • And the birds in particular, says he knows about every bird
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  • That falls to the ground.
  • 00:17:12.997 --> 00:17:14.399
  • He even used birds as an example for us, showing us that we don't
  • 00:17:14.399 --> 00:17:18.336
  • Have to worry.
  • 00:17:18.336 --> 00:17:19.704
  • Jesus said, "look at the birds, they don't plant or harvest or
  • 00:17:19.704 --> 00:17:22.407
  • Store food in barns, yet your heavenly father feeds them.
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  • Are you not more valuable than they are?"
  • 00:17:25.710 --> 00:17:28.646
  • And then he says, "can all of your worries add a single moment
  • 00:17:28.646 --> 00:17:31.682
  • To your life?"
  • 00:17:31.682 --> 00:17:33.017
  • Have you ever seen a bird worry?
  • 00:17:33.017 --> 00:17:35.386
  • Have you ever seen a bird pop a valium?
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  • I don't think so.
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  • God provides for them, but animals don't seek god.
  • 00:17:40.491 --> 00:17:45.596
  • Animals don't sit around and wonder about the meaning
  • 00:17:45.596 --> 00:17:48.166
  • Of life.
  • 00:17:48.166 --> 00:17:49.534
  • I don't think your dog lays around and thinks to himself,
  • 00:17:49.534 --> 00:17:52.937
  • "what is the meaning of my life?"
  • 00:17:52.937 --> 00:17:55.239
  • And i figure, if a dog had a voice, it would sound something
  • 00:17:55.239 --> 00:17:57.575
  • Like that.
  • 00:17:57.575 --> 00:17:58.943
  • "what is the meaning of my life?
  • 00:17:58.943 --> 00:18:00.545
  • I've tried everything this world offers: chasing cats, drinking
  • 00:18:00.545 --> 00:18:06.384
  • Toilet water, eating roadkill, though i did like that a great
  • 00:18:06.384 --> 00:18:10.721
  • Deal, but my life is so--" dogs don't think that.
  • 00:18:10.721 --> 00:18:15.193
  • I know cats don't think that.
  • 00:18:15.193 --> 00:18:17.462
  • I think cats think murderous thoughts toward us.
  • 00:18:17.462 --> 00:18:23.267
  • But people do think that.
  • 00:18:23.267 --> 00:18:25.603
  • From our earliest years, we wonder about the meaning of
  • 00:18:25.603 --> 00:18:28.706
  • Our lives.
  • 00:18:28.706 --> 00:18:30.041
  • And why is that?
  • 00:18:30.041 --> 00:18:31.375
  • Because you've been made in the image of god.
  • 00:18:31.375 --> 00:18:33.845
  • And the bible says, "god has set eternity in our heart."
  • 00:18:33.845 --> 00:18:37.615
  • It's like you were prewired to know god.
  • 00:18:37.615 --> 00:18:40.718
  • That's why we are that way.
  • 00:18:40.718 --> 00:18:42.386
  • So it's amazing to look at god's creation--and thank god for
  • 00:18:42.386 --> 00:18:46.657
  • That creation.
  • 00:18:46.657 --> 00:18:47.992
  • But there's no one higher than the creation of humanity.
  • 00:18:47.992 --> 00:18:51.929
  • After this, god rested; go to genesis 2, verse 1, "then the
  • 00:18:51.929 --> 00:18:56.033
  • Heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
  • 00:18:56.033 --> 00:18:58.536
  • Of them.
  • 00:18:58.536 --> 00:18:59.871
  • And on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made, and
  • 00:18:59.871 --> 00:19:02.540
  • He rested on the seventh day from all of the work which he
  • 00:19:02.540 --> 00:19:05.576
  • Had made.
  • 00:19:05.576 --> 00:19:06.911
  • And god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it
  • 00:19:06.911 --> 00:19:10.648
  • He had rested from all the work which he had created and made."
  • 00:19:10.648 --> 00:19:14.919
  • We'll stop there.
  • 00:19:14.919 --> 00:19:16.254
  • So god did not rest because he was tired.
  • 00:19:16.254 --> 00:19:18.623
  • That's why we rest.
  • 00:19:18.623 --> 00:19:20.358
  • God rested because he was done.
  • 00:19:20.358 --> 00:19:22.827
  • It was completed, it was accomplished.
  • 00:19:22.827 --> 00:19:25.530
  • In fact, it's a word that is used here for rest, hebrew word
  • 00:19:25.530 --> 00:19:30.001
  • Shabbat, where we translated to sabbath, and it simply
  • 00:19:30.001 --> 00:19:33.871
  • Means "cease."
  • 00:19:33.871 --> 00:19:35.373
  • God's done, "i'm finished."
  • 00:19:35.373 --> 00:19:38.409
  • There's a similar word in the new testament that is used, and
  • 00:19:38.409 --> 00:19:42.146
  • It is spoken by jesus as he hangs on the cross of calvary
  • 00:19:42.146 --> 00:19:46.150
  • Where he uttered seven significant statements.
  • 00:19:46.150 --> 00:19:49.453
  • And among those statements was the single word tetelestai, and
  • 00:19:49.453 --> 00:19:54.525
  • The word tetelestai is translated, "it is finished."
  • 00:19:54.525 --> 00:19:58.729
  • What was finished?
  • 00:19:58.729 --> 00:20:00.097
  • His work was finished.
  • 00:20:00.097 --> 00:20:01.666
  • He had accomplished what he had come to do: to die on the cross
  • 00:20:01.666 --> 00:20:05.269
  • For the sin of the world.
  • 00:20:05.269 --> 00:20:07.705
  • And it was accomplished, it was completed, it is finished, and
  • 00:20:07.705 --> 00:20:11.309
  • Our salvation is finished.
  • 00:20:11.309 --> 00:20:13.978
  • Once you believe in jesus christ, you don't have to work
  • 00:20:13.978 --> 00:20:16.647
  • For your salvation.
  • 00:20:16.647 --> 00:20:18.015
  • It's a gift to you from god.
  • 00:20:18.015 --> 00:20:20.484
  • So you can rest from the weight of sin, and you can rest from
  • 00:20:20.484 --> 00:20:24.789
  • Your fears as well, in the hand of god who created all things.
  • 00:20:24.789 --> 00:20:30.428
  • Listen to this, this almighty god, this all-powerful god, this
  • 00:20:30.428 --> 00:20:35.499
  • All-loving god can certainly handle whatever we throw at him,
  • 00:20:35.499 --> 00:20:41.305
  • And we should throw our problems at him.
  • 00:20:41.305 --> 00:20:44.709
  • 1 peter 5:7 says, "cast all your care upon him, for he cares
  • 00:20:44.709 --> 00:20:51.182
  • For you."
  • 00:20:51.182 --> 00:20:52.516
  • Now, that's interesting, that word "cast," as in cast your
  • 00:20:52.516 --> 00:20:55.686
  • Cares, means to hurl or to throw violently, like, throw your
  • 00:20:55.686 --> 00:21:00.891
  • Problems on to jesus.
  • 00:21:00.891 --> 00:21:04.262
  • And we all have problems, don't we?
  • 00:21:04.262 --> 00:21:06.464
  • We all have anxieties.
  • 00:21:06.464 --> 00:21:08.332
  • We all have things that keep us up at night.
  • 00:21:08.332 --> 00:21:10.735
  • Cast them on christ.
  • 00:21:10.735 --> 00:21:12.336
  • In fact, that word "cast your cares upon him" is only used
  • 00:21:12.336 --> 00:21:15.606
  • One other time in the new testament.
  • 00:21:15.606 --> 00:21:17.575
  • And that's speaking of when they took that donkey and put their
  • 00:21:17.575 --> 00:21:20.845
  • Garments on it, and jesus rode it into jerusalem on
  • 00:21:20.845 --> 00:21:25.349
  • Palm sunday.
  • 00:21:25.349 --> 00:21:26.717
  • So, in effect, here's what the bible is saying, "cast your
  • 00:21:26.717 --> 00:21:30.554
  • Cares on jesus as though he, if you will, was your beast of
  • 00:21:30.554 --> 00:21:35.459
  • Burden, carrying your problems for you.
  • 00:21:35.459 --> 00:21:38.062
  • Let jesus take your burdens, let him take your trash."
  • 00:21:38.062 --> 00:21:42.433
  • You know, i don't know about how it works in your home, but, in
  • 00:21:42.433 --> 00:21:44.635
  • Our home, i take the trash out.
  • 00:21:44.635 --> 00:21:47.104
  • And i have little cans with wheels.
  • 00:21:47.104 --> 00:21:48.706
  • And, now in california, we have 25 separate trash cans.
  • 00:21:48.706 --> 00:21:54.178
  • There, you know, okay, this is the recyclable things, and this
  • 00:21:54.178 --> 00:21:58.149
  • Is the other things, what is it, the landfill?
  • 00:21:58.149 --> 00:22:01.018
  • And i stand there with these little bags, i don't know which,
  • 00:22:01.018 --> 00:22:03.220
  • What i think.
  • 00:22:03.220 --> 00:22:04.588
  • I'm confused.
  • 00:22:04.588 --> 00:22:05.923
  • Are they going to arrest me if i get it wrong?
  • 00:22:05.923 --> 00:22:08.693
  • And then the trash man shows up, and i'm so glad he shows up
  • 00:22:08.693 --> 00:22:12.596
  • Because he takes my trash.
  • 00:22:12.596 --> 00:22:14.098
  • And if i forget one week, that trash starts piling up.
  • 00:22:14.098 --> 00:22:17.335
  • The same can be true of life.
  • 00:22:17.335 --> 00:22:18.903
  • Your trash can pile up, your problems can pile up, your
  • 00:22:18.903 --> 00:22:22.640
  • Anxieties can pile up, your sins can pile up.
  • 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:26.310
  • Hurl them on jesus.
  • 00:22:26.310 --> 00:22:28.579
  • Throw them violently, if you will, on jesus.
  • 00:22:28.579 --> 00:22:31.449
  • "i don't want this stuff in my life."
  • 00:22:31.449 --> 00:22:34.485
  • God can bring a genesis in your life.
  • 00:22:34.485 --> 00:22:37.521
  • Again, genesis means beginning.
  • 00:22:37.521 --> 00:22:40.024
  • God can bring a new beginning in your life.
  • 00:22:40.024 --> 00:22:42.593
  • He can make all things new.
  • 00:22:42.593 --> 00:22:44.528
  • We've all done things we regret, we all, we've all said things we
  • 00:22:44.528 --> 00:22:48.866
  • Wish we had not said.
  • 00:22:48.866 --> 00:22:50.501
  • But god can change that if we come to him and bring our lives
  • 00:22:50.501 --> 00:22:55.206
  • To him.
  • 00:22:55.206 --> 00:22:56.574
  • This almighty god, the creator of the heavens and the earth,
  • 00:22:56.574 --> 00:23:00.945
  • This god who has a name for every star, the god who brought
  • 00:23:00.945 --> 00:23:05.516
  • This magnificent creation out of nothing, cares about you and he
  • 00:23:05.516 --> 00:23:10.821
  • Loves you.
  • 00:23:10.821 --> 00:23:12.189
  • David was watching over his flock of sheep one day, one
  • 00:23:12.189 --> 00:23:15.626
  • Night, actually.
  • 00:23:15.626 --> 00:23:17.228
  • And he wrote this down in psalm 8, "when i look at the night sky
  • 00:23:17.228 --> 00:23:22.500
  • And i see the work of your fingers--the moon and the stars
  • 00:23:22.500 --> 00:23:25.770
  • That you set in place--what are mortals that you should think
  • 00:23:25.770 --> 00:23:29.373
  • About them, what are human beings that you should care
  • 00:23:29.373 --> 00:23:32.710
  • For them?"
  • 00:23:32.710 --> 00:23:34.111
  • Have you ever just laid out and looked up into the sky?
  • 00:23:34.111 --> 00:23:37.181
  • You have to find a spot where you can actually see the stars.
  • 00:23:37.181 --> 00:23:41.685
  • But, as you look up there, you just think, "wow, the god who
  • 00:23:41.685 --> 00:23:44.655
  • Made all of this cares about me.
  • 00:23:44.655 --> 00:23:47.358
  • He knows every star by name.
  • 00:23:47.358 --> 00:23:48.993
  • He knows every bird that falls to the ground.
  • 00:23:48.993 --> 00:23:51.228
  • He knows every thought that we think.
  • 00:23:51.228 --> 00:23:53.230
  • And he's thinking about me."
  • 00:23:53.230 --> 00:23:55.032
  • As david wrote in psalm 109, "i'm poor and needy, yet you
  • 00:23:55.032 --> 00:23:58.869
  • Think of me."
  • 00:23:58.869 --> 00:24:01.372
  • In psalm 40, we read the psalmist say, "many, o lord, are
  • 00:24:01.372 --> 00:24:04.074
  • Your wonderful works which you've done.
  • 00:24:04.074 --> 00:24:05.910
  • And your thoughts toward us cannot be counted.
  • 00:24:05.910 --> 00:24:09.246
  • If i were to speak of them, they're more than you
  • 00:24:09.246 --> 00:24:11.782
  • Could number."
  • 00:24:11.782 --> 00:24:13.417
  • I love that.
  • 00:24:13.417 --> 00:24:14.785
  • God's thinking about you.
  • 00:24:14.785 --> 00:24:16.120
  • God cares about you.
  • 00:24:16.120 --> 00:24:18.522
  • And think about jeremiah 29:11, of course, right?
  • 00:24:18.522 --> 00:24:22.092
  • "i know the thoughts that i think toward you, says the lord,
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  • Thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you a future and
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  • A hope."
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  • Let me come back to that question i raised earlier.
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  • Why did god create me?
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  • What is the purpose of my life?
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  • What is the meaning of my life?
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  • The meaning of my life is to please god.
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  • The meaning of my life is to know god.
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  • The meaning of my life is to glorify god.
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  • I said earlier, "he set eternity in my heart."
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  • I'm wired to worship.
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  • I was made to have a relationship with god.
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  • Of course, that was all lost in the garden of eden.
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  • And we'll talk about that next time, when adam and eve ate of
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  • That forbidden fruit.
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  • But the point is simply this.
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  • I can know god because christ died for my sin.
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  • He came and walked among us as a man, died on the cross, and rose
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  • Again from the dead.
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  • And now he stands at the door of our heart, and he knocks, and he
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  • Says, "if you'll hear his voice and open the door, i will
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  • Come in."
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • Years ago, i was in the ocean with my son, and we got caught
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  • In a rip tide.
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  • Problem is, we're only a few feet from the shore.
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  • The lifeguard comes to rescue me; i say, "i think i'm okay,"
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  • And i finally got my feet on firm ground.
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  • But the problem was, i was too proud to say i needed help.
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  • That's like us, drowning in sin, drowning in addiction, needing
  • 00:25:50.047 --> 00:25:54.985
  • The help of god.
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  • Here's what the bible says, "whoever will call upon the name
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  • Of the lord will be saved."
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  • Whatever you're facing right now, jesus is ready to come and
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  • Help you, to save you.
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  • You can just pray, "lord jesus, save me, forgive me of my sin.
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  • I need a relationship with you.
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  • I need hope in my life."
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  • Pray that prayer, he'll hear it, and he'll answer it.
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  • I want to send you a bible at no charge to help you get started
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  • In a relationship with jesus christ.
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, there is a very special group of people
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  • I want to introduce you to.
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  • They are a group of people who are passionate about the gospel
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  • Of jesus christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond.
  • 00:26:40.864 --> 00:26:44.802
  • In fact, these people our radio program, our harvest
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  • Crusades, our evangelistic movies like "jesus revolution,"
  • 00:26:48.872 --> 00:26:52.943
  • And so much more.
  • 00:26:52.943 --> 00:26:54.278
  • Without them, harvest ministries could not even exist,
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  • So who are these amazing people?
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  • We call them harvest partners.
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  • They are people who have chosen to give monthly to harvest to
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  • Keep the gospel moving forward.
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  • Some can only give a little, others can give more,
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  • But all of it makes a big difference.
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  • Jesus said, "the harvest is plentiful,
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  • But the laborers are few.
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  • Therefore, pray the lord of the harvest to send out
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  • Laborers into his harvest."
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  • Will you become a harvest partner and help us fulfill the
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  • Great commission in our lifetime?
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  • Let's do this together.
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