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Greg Laurie - God's Purpose For Us

February 19, 2025 | S25:E43

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 | February 19, 2025
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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, the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, 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
  • 00:12:35.389 --> 00:12:40.294
  • Made by god.
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  • And the bible not only says that, but it says that he has
  • 00:12:41.696 --> 00:12:44.298
  • Named each star.
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  • Why do i bring this up?
  • 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:47.335
  • Because, whatever you're facing, i think god can handle
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  • It, right?
  • 00:12:50.772 --> 00:12:52.874
  • 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?"
  • 00:13:15.396 --> 00:13:18.966
  • Jesus said, "your father knows what you have need of before you
  • 00:13:18.966 --> 00:13:22.570
  • Ask him."
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  • Okay, listen, prayer is not informing god.
  • 00:13:23.905 --> 00:13:27.475
  • Prayer is inviting god.
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  • Prayer is getting closer to god.
  • 00:13:29.944 --> 00:13:32.947
  • And, through prayer, this is how the lord will provide for us.
  • 00:13:32.947 --> 00:13:36.717
  • Because the bible actually says, "you have not because you
  • 00:13:36.717 --> 00:13:40.521
  • Ask not."
  • 00:13:40.521 --> 00:13:42.190
  • And then jesus said, "ask, and it shall be given.
  • 00:13:42.190 --> 00:13:44.859
  • Seek, and ye shall find.
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  • Knock, and the door shall be opened."
  • 00:13:46.194 --> 00:13:48.262
  • So sometimes the lord allows situations in our life, adverse
  • 00:13:48.262 --> 00:13:53.201
  • Circumstances, a conflict, a storm if you will, or a great
  • 00:13:53.201 --> 00:13:57.738
  • Need, so we will come to him in prayer and be dependent on him.
  • 00:13:57.738 --> 00:14:02.977
  • And so we can see it is god that is gonna come through for us.
  • 00:14:02.977 --> 00:14:07.415
  • Prayer brings us closer to god.
  • 00:14:07.415 --> 00:14:10.685
  • So why should we pray if god already knows what we need or
  • 00:14:10.685 --> 00:14:14.755
  • Knows what he's going to do?
  • 00:14:14.755 --> 00:14:16.157
  • Because jesus said, "men ought always to pray and not give up."
  • 00:14:16.157 --> 00:14:22.697
  • So, whatever you're facing, keep praying about it.
  • 00:14:22.697 --> 00:14:25.933
  • I love the words of paul to the believers in philippi when he
  • 00:14:25.933 --> 00:14:29.604
  • Said, "don't worry about anything.
  • 00:14:29.604 --> 00:14:31.939
  • Pray about everything.
  • 00:14:31.939 --> 00:14:33.908
  • And the peace of god that passes all human understanding will
  • 00:14:33.908 --> 00:14:37.545
  • Guard your heart and mind in christ jesus."
  • 00:14:37.545 --> 00:14:40.648
  • Greg: number six, god created mankind in his image.
  • 00:14:44.752 --> 00:14:49.891
  • He made us in his image.
  • 00:14:49.891 --> 00:14:51.325
  • We're not a highly evolved life form.
  • 00:14:51.325 --> 00:14:54.262
  • We're not evolving from animals.
  • 00:14:54.262 --> 00:14:56.731
  • We're uniquely created and made by god himself.
  • 00:14:56.731 --> 00:15:01.002
  • We are his image bearer.
  • 00:15:01.002 --> 00:15:03.004
  • That's not true of any other created thing.
  • 00:15:03.004 --> 00:15:06.274
  • Genesis 1:26, "god said, 'let us make man in our image according
  • 00:15:06.274 --> 00:15:11.579
  • To our likeness.
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  • Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
  • 00:15:12.914 --> 00:15:15.883
  • Of the air, over the cattle, over the earth and over every
  • 00:15:15.883 --> 00:15:19.754
  • Creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'
  • 00:15:19.754 --> 00:15:22.456
  • So god created man in his own image, in the image of god he
  • 00:15:22.456 --> 00:15:27.295
  • Created him, male and female he created them.
  • 00:15:27.295 --> 00:15:30.965
  • Then he blessed them and said, 'be fruitful and multiply.
  • 00:15:30.965 --> 00:15:33.968
  • Fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish
  • 00:15:33.968 --> 00:15:37.805
  • Of the sea, and the birds of the air, and every living thing that
  • 00:15:37.805 --> 00:15:41.575
  • Moves on the earth.'"
  • 00:15:41.575 --> 00:15:43.244
  • You know, it's interesting to know, after each thing that god
  • 00:15:43.244 --> 00:15:46.314
  • Made, he would say, "it is good."
  • 00:15:46.314 --> 00:15:48.316
  • But, after he created man, he said, "it is very good,"
  • 00:15:48.316 --> 00:15:52.019
  • Genesis 1:31.
  • 00:15:52.019 --> 00:15:53.721
  • Humans are uniquely made in god's image, as i said.
  • 00:15:53.721 --> 00:15:57.858
  • And, i don't know what's going on right now, but people seem to
  • 00:15:57.858 --> 00:16:01.228
  • Be more obsessed with animals than any time i can remember,
  • 00:16:01.228 --> 00:16:05.266
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:16:05.266 --> 00:16:06.734
  • And, by the way, i'm an animal lover, but sometimes that's
  • 00:16:06.734 --> 00:16:10.671
  • Going a little far.
  • 00:16:10.671 --> 00:16:12.006
  • You know, we have to take the animals everywhere with us now.
  • 00:16:12.006 --> 00:16:14.709
  • The animals are in the car, we take the animals into the
  • 00:16:14.709 --> 00:16:17.478
  • Restaurant; we push the dogs around in the strollers, right?
  • 00:16:17.478 --> 00:16:21.582
  • And now people are on planes, and they have to have their
  • 00:16:21.582 --> 00:16:23.918
  • "emotional support animals."
  • 00:16:23.918 --> 00:16:26.454
  • They've got their dogs and their cats.
  • 00:16:26.454 --> 00:16:28.656
  • But i read that other animals that people have taken on
  • 00:16:28.656 --> 00:16:31.459
  • Planes--i'm not making any of these up--pigs, ducks, ponies,
  • 00:16:31.459 --> 00:16:36.230
  • A pony.
  • 00:16:36.230 --> 00:16:37.598
  • I saw a photograph of a pony in the plane.
  • 00:16:37.598 --> 00:16:40.601
  • Look, that plane isn't big enough for the people, much less
  • 00:16:40.601 --> 00:16:43.237
  • With a pony in there.
  • 00:16:43.237 --> 00:16:45.106
  • Someone else brought a kangaroo.
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  • No, i'm not making that up, probably came from australia,
  • 00:16:47.541 --> 00:16:50.111
  • I suppose.
  • 00:16:50.111 --> 00:16:51.479
  • But, now, animals are animals, and we have to see them for what
  • 00:16:51.479 --> 00:16:54.315
  • They are.
  • 00:16:54.315 --> 00:16:55.683
  • But nowadays people treat animals as though they're
  • 00:16:55.683 --> 00:16:57.418
  • Our children.
  • 00:16:57.418 --> 00:16:58.853
  • People will say, "animals are people, too."
  • 00:16:58.853 --> 00:17:01.122
  • No, they aren't, they're animals.
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  • Let's appreciate them for what they are.
  • 00:17:03.024 --> 00:17:05.593
  • 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.
  • 00:17:13.267 --> 00:17:14.668
  • He even used birds as an example for us, showing us that we don't
  • 00:17:14.668 --> 00:17:18.606
  • Have to worry.
  • 00:17:18.606 --> 00:17:19.974
  • Jesus said, "look at the birds, they don't plant or harvest or
  • 00:17:19.974 --> 00:17:22.676
  • Store food in barns, yet your heavenly father feeds them.
  • 00:17:22.676 --> 00:17:25.980
  • Are you not more valuable than they are?"
  • 00:17:25.980 --> 00:17:28.916
  • And then he says, "can all of your worries add a single moment
  • 00:17:28.916 --> 00:17:31.952
  • To your life?"
  • 00:17:31.952 --> 00:17:33.287
  • Have you ever seen a bird worry?
  • 00:17:33.287 --> 00:17:35.656
  • 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.
  • 00:17:40.761 --> 00:17:45.866
  • Animals don't sit around and wonder about the meaning
  • 00:17:45.866 --> 00:17:48.436
  • Of life.
  • 00:17:48.436 --> 00:17:49.804
  • I don't think your dog lays around and thinks to himself,
  • 00:17:49.804 --> 00:17:53.207
  • "what is the meaning of my life?"
  • 00:17:53.207 --> 00:17:55.509
  • And i figure, if a dog had a voice, it would sound something
  • 00:17:55.509 --> 00:17:57.845
  • Like that.
  • 00:17:57.845 --> 00:17:59.213
  • "what is the meaning of my life?
  • 00:17:59.213 --> 00:18:00.815
  • I've tried everything this world offers: chasing cats, drinking
  • 00:18:00.815 --> 00:18:06.654
  • Toilet water, eating roadkill, though i did like that a great
  • 00:18:06.654 --> 00:18:10.991
  • Deal, but my life is so--" dogs don't think that.
  • 00:18:10.991 --> 00:18:15.463
  • I know cats don't think that.
  • 00:18:15.463 --> 00:18:17.731
  • I think cats think murderous thoughts toward us.
  • 00:18:17.731 --> 00:18:23.537
  • But people do think that.
  • 00:18:23.537 --> 00:18:25.873
  • From our earliest years, we wonder about the meaning of
  • 00:18:25.873 --> 00:18:28.976
  • Our lives.
  • 00:18:28.976 --> 00:18:30.311
  • And why is that?
  • 00:18:30.311 --> 00:18:31.645
  • Because you've been made in the image of god.
  • 00:18:31.645 --> 00:18:34.115
  • And the bible says, "god has set eternity in our heart."
  • 00:18:34.115 --> 00:18:37.885
  • It's like you were prewired to know god.
  • 00:18:37.885 --> 00:18:40.988
  • That's why we are that way.
  • 00:18:40.988 --> 00:18:42.656
  • So it's amazing to look at god's creation--and thank god for
  • 00:18:42.656 --> 00:18:46.927
  • That creation.
  • 00:18:46.927 --> 00:18:48.262
  • But there's no one higher than the creation of humanity.
  • 00:18:48.262 --> 00:18:52.199
  • After this, god rested; go to genesis 2, verse 1, "then the
  • 00:18:52.199 --> 00:18:56.303
  • Heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host
  • 00:18:56.303 --> 00:18:58.806
  • Of them.
  • 00:18:58.806 --> 00:19:00.141
  • And on the seventh day god ended his work which he had made, and
  • 00:19:00.141 --> 00:19:02.810
  • He rested on the seventh day from all of the work which he
  • 00:19:02.810 --> 00:19:05.846
  • Had made.
  • 00:19:05.846 --> 00:19:07.181
  • And god blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it
  • 00:19:07.181 --> 00:19:10.918
  • He had rested from all the work which he had created and made."
  • 00:19:10.918 --> 00:19:15.189
  • We'll stop there.
  • 00:19:15.189 --> 00:19:16.524
  • So god did not rest because he was tired.
  • 00:19:16.524 --> 00:19:18.893
  • That's why we rest.
  • 00:19:18.893 --> 00:19:20.628
  • God rested because he was done.
  • 00:19:20.628 --> 00:19:23.097
  • It was completed, it was accomplished.
  • 00:19:23.097 --> 00:19:25.799
  • In fact, it's a word that is used here for rest, hebrew word
  • 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:30.271
  • Shabbat, where we translated to sabbath, and it simply
  • 00:19:30.271 --> 00:19:34.141
  • Means "cease."
  • 00:19:34.141 --> 00:19:35.643
  • God's done, "i'm finished."
  • 00:19:35.643 --> 00:19:38.679
  • There's a similar word in the new testament that is used, and
  • 00:19:38.679 --> 00:19:42.416
  • It is spoken by jesus as he hangs on the cross of calvary
  • 00:19:42.416 --> 00:19:46.420
  • Where he uttered seven significant statements.
  • 00:19:46.420 --> 00:19:49.723
  • And among those statements was the single word tetelestai, and
  • 00:19:49.723 --> 00:19:54.795
  • The word tetelestai is translated, "it is finished."
  • 00:19:54.795 --> 00:19:58.999
  • What was finished?
  • 00:19:58.999 --> 00:20:00.367
  • His work was finished.
  • 00:20:00.367 --> 00:20:01.936
  • He had accomplished what he had come to do: to die on the cross
  • 00:20:01.936 --> 00:20:05.539
  • For the sin of the world.
  • 00:20:05.539 --> 00:20:07.975
  • And it was accomplished, it was completed, it is finished, and
  • 00:20:07.975 --> 00:20:11.579
  • Our salvation is finished.
  • 00:20:11.579 --> 00:20:14.248
  • Once you believe in jesus christ, you don't have to work
  • 00:20:14.248 --> 00:20:16.917
  • For your salvation.
  • 00:20:16.917 --> 00:20:18.285
  • It's a gift to you from god.
  • 00:20:18.285 --> 00:20:20.754
  • So you can rest from the weight of sin, and you can rest from
  • 00:20:20.754 --> 00:20:25.059
  • Your fears as well, in the hand of god who created all things.
  • 00:20:25.059 --> 00:20:30.698
  • Listen to this, this almighty god, this all-powerful god, this
  • 00:20:30.698 --> 00:20:35.769
  • All-loving god can certainly handle whatever we throw at him,
  • 00:20:35.769 --> 00:20:41.575
  • And we should throw our problems at him.
  • 00:20:41.575 --> 00:20:44.979
  • 1 peter 5:7 says, "cast all your care upon him, for he cares
  • 00:20:44.979 --> 00:20:51.452
  • For you."
  • 00:20:51.452 --> 00:20:52.786
  • Now, that's interesting, that word "cast," as in cast your
  • 00:20:52.786 --> 00:20:55.956
  • Cares, means to hurl or to throw violently, like, throw your
  • 00:20:55.956 --> 00:21:01.161
  • Problems on to jesus.
  • 00:21:01.161 --> 00:21:04.531
  • And we all have problems, don't we?
  • 00:21:04.531 --> 00:21:06.734
  • We all have anxieties.
  • 00:21:06.734 --> 00:21:08.602
  • We all have things that keep us up at night.
  • 00:21:08.602 --> 00:21:11.005
  • Cast them on christ.
  • 00:21:11.005 --> 00:21:12.606
  • In fact, that word "cast your cares upon him" is only used
  • 00:21:12.606 --> 00:21:15.876
  • One other time in the new testament.
  • 00:21:15.876 --> 00:21:17.845
  • And that's speaking of when they took that donkey and put their
  • 00:21:17.845 --> 00:21:21.115
  • Garments on it, and jesus rode it into jerusalem on
  • 00:21:21.115 --> 00:21:25.619
  • Palm sunday.
  • 00:21:25.619 --> 00:21:26.987
  • So, in effect, here's what the bible is saying, "cast your
  • 00:21:26.987 --> 00:21:30.824
  • Cares on jesus as though he, if you will, was your beast of
  • 00:21:30.824 --> 00:21:35.729
  • Burden, carrying your problems for you.
  • 00:21:35.729 --> 00:21:38.332
  • Let jesus take your burdens, let him take your trash."
  • 00:21:38.332 --> 00:21:42.703
  • You know, i don't know about how it works in your home, but, in
  • 00:21:42.703 --> 00:21:44.905
  • Our home, i take the trash out.
  • 00:21:44.905 --> 00:21:47.374
  • And i have little cans with wheels.
  • 00:21:47.374 --> 00:21:48.976
  • And, now in california, we have 25 separate trash cans.
  • 00:21:48.976 --> 00:21:54.448
  • There, you know, okay, this is the recyclable things, and this
  • 00:21:54.448 --> 00:21:58.419
  • Is the other things, what is it, the landfill?
  • 00:21:58.419 --> 00:22:01.288
  • And i stand there with these little bags, i don't know which,
  • 00:22:01.288 --> 00:22:03.490
  • What i think.
  • 00:22:03.490 --> 00:22:04.858
  • I'm confused.
  • 00:22:04.858 --> 00:22:06.193
  • Are they going to arrest me if i get it wrong?
  • 00:22:06.193 --> 00:22:08.962
  • And then the trash man shows up, and i'm so glad he shows up
  • 00:22:08.962 --> 00:22:12.866
  • Because he takes my trash.
  • 00:22:12.866 --> 00:22:14.368
  • And if i forget one week, that trash starts piling up.
  • 00:22:14.368 --> 00:22:17.604
  • The same can be true of life.
  • 00:22:17.604 --> 00:22:19.173
  • Your trash can pile up, your problems can pile up, your
  • 00:22:19.173 --> 00:22:22.910
  • Anxieties can pile up, your sins can pile up.
  • 00:22:22.910 --> 00:22:26.580
  • Hurl them on jesus.
  • 00:22:26.580 --> 00:22:28.849
  • Throw them violently, if you will, on jesus.
  • 00:22:28.849 --> 00:22:31.719
  • "i don't want this stuff in my life."
  • 00:22:31.719 --> 00:22:34.755
  • God can bring a genesis in your life.
  • 00:22:34.755 --> 00:22:37.791
  • Again, genesis means beginning.
  • 00:22:37.791 --> 00:22:40.294
  • God can bring a new beginning in your life.
  • 00:22:40.294 --> 00:22:42.863
  • He can make all things new.
  • 00:22:42.863 --> 00:22:44.798
  • We've all done things we regret, we all, we've all said things we
  • 00:22:44.798 --> 00:22:49.136
  • Wish we had not said.
  • 00:22:49.136 --> 00:22:50.771
  • But god can change that if we come to him and bring our lives
  • 00:22:50.771 --> 00:22:55.476
  • To him.
  • 00:22:55.476 --> 00:22:56.844
  • This almighty god, the creator of the heavens and the earth,
  • 00:22:56.844 --> 00:23:01.215
  • This god who has a name for every star, the god who brought
  • 00:23:01.215 --> 00:23:05.786
  • This magnificent creation out of nothing, cares about you and he
  • 00:23:05.786 --> 00:23:11.091
  • Loves you.
  • 00:23:11.091 --> 00:23:12.459
  • David was watching over his flock of sheep one day, one
  • 00:23:12.459 --> 00:23:15.896
  • Night, actually.
  • 00:23:15.896 --> 00:23:17.498
  • And he wrote this down in psalm 8, "when i look at the night sky
  • 00:23:17.498 --> 00:23:22.770
  • And i see the work of your fingers--the moon and the stars
  • 00:23:22.770 --> 00:23:26.039
  • That you set in place--what are mortals that you should think
  • 00:23:26.039 --> 00:23:29.643
  • About them, what are human beings that you should care
  • 00:23:29.643 --> 00:23:32.980
  • For them?"
  • 00:23:32.980 --> 00:23:34.381
  • Have you ever just laid out and looked up into the sky?
  • 00:23:34.381 --> 00:23:37.451
  • You have to find a spot where you can actually see the stars.
  • 00:23:37.451 --> 00:23:41.955
  • But, as you look up there, you just think, "wow, the god who
  • 00:23:41.955 --> 00:23:44.925
  • Made all of this cares about me.
  • 00:23:44.925 --> 00:23:47.628
  • He knows every star by name.
  • 00:23:47.628 --> 00:23:49.263
  • He knows every bird that falls to the ground.
  • 00:23:49.263 --> 00:23:51.498
  • He knows every thought that we think.
  • 00:23:51.498 --> 00:23:53.500
  • And he's thinking about me."
  • 00:23:53.500 --> 00:23:55.302
  • As david wrote in psalm 109, "i'm poor and needy, yet you
  • 00:23:55.302 --> 00:23:59.139
  • Think of me."
  • 00:23:59.139 --> 00:24:01.642
  • In psalm 40, we read the psalmist say, "many, o lord, are
  • 00:24:01.642 --> 00:24:04.344
  • Your wonderful works which you've done.
  • 00:24:04.344 --> 00:24:06.180
  • And your thoughts toward us cannot be counted.
  • 00:24:06.180 --> 00:24:09.516
  • If i were to speak of them, they're more than you
  • 00:24:09.516 --> 00:24:12.052
  • Could number."
  • 00:24:12.052 --> 00:24:13.687
  • I love that.
  • 00:24:13.687 --> 00:24:15.055
  • God's thinking about you.
  • 00:24:15.055 --> 00:24:16.390
  • God cares about you.
  • 00:24:16.390 --> 00:24:18.792
  • And think about jeremiah 29:11, of course, right?
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  • "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
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  • 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: so this is--these are the remains of someone's home, and
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  • We have a team of people here that are volunteers.
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  • Many of these people are from harvest working
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  • With samaritan's purse.
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  • So we come here, and we do these things for these people in the
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  • Name of jesus christ to let them know that there are people
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  • That care about them.
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  • And we share the gospel with people and help people see
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  • Their need for jesus.
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  • You know, when you're down, when you're hurting, when tragedy
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  • Is hit, a lot of times you're more open to hearing the gospel
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  • Than maybe under normal circumstances when
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  • Things are going well.
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  • And i found that sometimes in the worst of circumstances, you
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  • Can see amazing things happen because people open their hearts
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  • To god and see their real need.
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