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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Good News In A Bad World | February 10, 2026
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- Greg laurie: there are certain things i know about you
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- Without even knowing you personally.
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- I know this about you.
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- Everyone is empty inside.
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- You're effectively born with what we can describe
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- As a hole in your heart, so to speak.
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- It's a void, and there's nothing that will fill this hole.
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- ♪ this is the day, the day where life begins ♪
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- ♪ this is the day, the day where life begins ♪♪
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- Greg: welcome to the harvest crusade everybody.
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- There's so much negativity, so much bad news.
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- I have some good news in a bad world.
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- Yeah, we've been doing these crusades 34 years.
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- A lot has changed, and we did the first one in a place
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- Called the pacific amphitheater in 1990.
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- The top movies in the theaters were "home alone"
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- That marks it in time, "pretty woman."
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- The top tv shows were "seinfeld,"
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- "the fresh prince of bel air,"
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- And bill cosby was america's dad.
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- Yeah, things have changed just a little bit.
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- The top songs were "ice ice baby" by vanilla ice,
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- And "you can't touch this" by mc hammer,
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- And "vogue" by madonna.
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- And guess what, there were no smart phones.
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- No smart phones.
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- I think it might have been better back
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- When there no smart phones.
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- The internet was just coming into its own.
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- We used something called a 56k modem.
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- How many of you remember the 56k modem?
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- Right.
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- So that's what was going on in the world and of
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- The harvest crusade, and though a lot has changed,
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- There's a lot of things that haven't changed.
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- For instance, there are certain things i know about you without
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- Even knowing you personally.
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- I know this about you.
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- Everyone is empty inside.
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- You're effectively born with what we can describe
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- As a hole in your heart, so to speak.
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- It's a void, and there's nothing that will fill this hole.
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- Not relationships, not possessions,
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- Not accomplishments, not sex, not fame--nothing.
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- Comedian dave chapelle, when he first started
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- Making a lotta money, was quoted to say,
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- "the higher up i go, the less happy i am."
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- You see, this is a loneliness for god himself.
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- I remember when i was a little boy, i was living with
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- My grandparents because my mom was living her wild life
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- Getting married and divorced over and over again
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- And partying her life away.
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- So, i'm living with my grandparents and they would
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- Go to bed at night, and i remember this very vividly:
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- My grandmother used to take her dentures out
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- And put them in some bottle of water, and it freaked me out.
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- I still have nightmares about it.
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- But anyway, she was a great grandmother,
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- But i just didn't need to see that.
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- But you can't unsee it once you've seen it.
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- And i would--i would go into my little bedroom and i would pull
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- A blanket over my head, and i would have conversations
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- With someone i called mr. nobody.
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- I would just talk to this imaginary person, mr. nobody,
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- And you know what?
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- In my way as a little boy, i was trying to talk to god.
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- I just didn't know how.
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- And then one day, i discovered mr. nobody had a name.
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- His name was jesus, and he was very interested in me.
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- Everyone is empty.
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- Number two, everyone is lonely.
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- Everyone is lonely.
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- Lady gaga, through tears in an interview, said this:
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- "i'm alone every night.
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- All these people will leave, right?
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- They'll leave and i'll be all alone.
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- I go from everyone wanting to touch me all day
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- To just being in total silence."
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- Do you know what the top words are for late
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- Night google search is?
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- Porn, lonely, and suicide, wow.
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- Porn, lonely, and suicide.
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- Does that describe someone i'm talkin' to right now?
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- You're lonely, you've even contemplated suicide.
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- Some of you have possibly even attempted it.
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- Number three, everyone feels guilt.
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- It's built into us.
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- The head of a mental institution once said, "i could release
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- Half of my patients if i could find a way to rid them
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- Of their sense of guilt."
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- Listen, the reason you feel guilt is because--
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- How shall i say this--you're guilty.
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- And it's good that you feel guilt.
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- Guilt is sort of like a fire alarm.
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- I don't know about you, but i have a hyper-sensitive
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- Fire alarm near my kitchen.
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- My wife cooks an egg, the alarm goes off.
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- And why is it that alarms always go off at three o'clock in
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- The morning telling you, "it's time to change the batteries."
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- Could this not happen in the afternoon?
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- It has to be in the middle
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- Of the night giving me a heart attack?
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- But the fire alarm effectively is warning you about something,
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- And when you feel guilt, that means your conscience is
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- Working, but everyone is guilty.
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- Maybe you come in here tonight with a lot of guilt 'cause
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- You've done things you're ashamed of.
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- You wish you could undo those things, but you can't.
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- But the good news is--is guilt comes because we sin,
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- But god can forgive our sin and remove our guilt, you see.
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- And deep down inside, everyone is afraid to die.
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- The statistics on death are really quite impressive--
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- One out of every one persons will die.
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- There are no exceptions.
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- The bible speaks of those who are terrified
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- By the fear of death.
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- Actor william shatner, best known for playing captain kirk
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- On star trek is now 92 years old,
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- And in an interview he said, "i'm so not ready to die.
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- It petrifies me.
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- I go alone--i go to a place i don't know.
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- It might be painful.
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- It might be the end.
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- My thought is, it's the end.
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- I become nameless after i spent a lifetime being known."
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- Man.
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- Someone needs to tell william shatner
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- That there's hope beyond the grave.
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- You know?
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- And then he can truly live long and prosper.
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- Trying to do the little star trek deal there.
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- Arnold schwarzenegger, our former governor
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- Here in california, was recently interviewed,
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- And he gave his thoughts on death.
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- I can't use the exact words that he used because
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- There were some--some bad words.
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- But he says, "i know people feel comfortable with death,
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- But i don't, because i will [blanking] miss the [blank]
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- Out of everything.
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- To sit here with you, that's gonna be gone,
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- And all the things that we do--that's gonna end?
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- What the [blank]!
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- That's what hopelessness sounds like, you see?
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- That's what i used to think.
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- I thought when you die, you simply cease to exist,
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- And that freaked me out.
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- But that is not what happens.
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- When you die, your body goes into the ground,
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- But your soul goes into the afterlife.
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- There is life beyond the grave.
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- And if you believe in jesus christ,
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- You go straight to heaven.
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- The moment you take your last breath on earth,
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- You take your first breath in heaven.
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- You close your--you close your eyes on earth
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- And you open them in heaven.
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- Now, that's for the believer.
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- Now, the nonbeliever, they will face a certain judgment,
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- And just as surely as there is a glorious place called heaven,
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- There's also a place called hell.
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- I'll say a few words about that in just a moment.
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- So yes, we're empty, we're lonely,
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- We're guilty, we're afraid to die.
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- But there is a solution, and it's called the gospel.
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- Did you know that the word "gospel" means good news?
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- That's what it means, good news.
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- And people need good news today in a bad world.
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- "generation z" has been dubbed the hopeless generation.
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- Ed shearen is among the twenty-first century's biggest
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- Global pop stars, but in a recent interview, he said he
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- Found himself suicidal after the death of two of his friends,
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- And his wife got very sick, and he and his wife were plagued
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- With fear, depression, and anxiety.
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- Think of all of the success that ed shearen has had,
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- But he's filed with fear, depression, and anxiety.
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- Has that described someone?
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- I'm talking to you right now?
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- According to a report that just came out or the centers of
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- Disease control, 60% of female students experienced
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- Feelings of sadness or hopelessness in the past year,
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- And 25% of them have made a suicide plan.
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- Wow. that's scary.
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- Here's the problem: we're lookin' down way too much.
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- We're lookin' down in these phones and engaging in something
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- That is called "doom scrolling."
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- It's when you're just reading depressing news.
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- And there's a lotta scary things happening in our world.
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- I just read today about talk of a potential nuclear war.
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- Now, this is scary stuff. and so, what do we do?
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- Jesus said when you see these things begin to happen,
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- Look up because your redemption is drawing near.
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- It's time to look up.
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- Stop looking down.
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- Start looking up.
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- Life can be like a puzzle.
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- How many of you like puzzles?
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- Raise your hand.
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- I don't like puzzles.
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- Now, my wife loves puzzles.
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- If she sees a puzzle, she'll stop--
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- "oh, greg, look! a puzzle!"
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- And she'll start putting it together.
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- I'll just keep walking.
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- I'll think, "what a waste of time."
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- So, the other day she was assembling this huge puzzle in
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- Our front room and--and she was almost done and i was upstairs.
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- She said, "greg!
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- Greg, come help me--i'm missing a piece of the puzzle."
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- So i came downstairs and i got down on my hands and knees
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- And searched, and i finally found it.
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- I said, "cathy, here it is."
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- She said, "there is the final piece of the puzzle.
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- It's completed." and life can be that way.
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- We think, "well, if i just do these things,
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- I'll be happy and complete.
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- You know, if i just get through high school.
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- Now i get through college.
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- Now i get my degree.
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- Now i begin my career.
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- Okay, well now i'll get married.
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- Okay, maybe i'll marry someone else instead.
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- I get divorced, and marry again.
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- Oh, now we'll have kids.
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- It's kids. kids are the answer."
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- You have kids.
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- How do we get rid of these kids?
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- It's like, they're 40 and still living at home, right?
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- And--and it just goes on and on and on.
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- You're looking for the missing piece of the puzzle.
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- Look up.
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- God's holding the missing piece of the puzzle.
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- He's got it.
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- It's him that you're actually looking for.
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- So i wanna read a passage from the bible.
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- It's in romans chapter 10, and it says this: "how can
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- They call on him to save them unless they believe in him?
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- How can they believe in him if they've never heard about him?
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- How can they hear about him unless someone tells them?
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- How can anyone go and tell them without being sent?"
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- This is why the scriptures say, "how beautiful are the feet of
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- Those the preach the good news."
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- This is what i wanna talk to you about tonight.
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- The good news.
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- The good news of the gospel.
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- The good news of your sins being forgiven.
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- But it says preach it.
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- Now, i know people don't generally like preachers.
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- We use the word "preach" in a negative way.
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- "hey man, don't preach to me."
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- So let me use another word.
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- Recommendation. right?
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- A recommendation for you.
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- Like, you know, we're in a town we've never been to before.
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- We wonder if there's any good restaurants, and so
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- We go to yelp and read the opinions of complete strangers.
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- "oh, they say this is good.
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- This got a high rating on yelp.
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- Let's go there."
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- So it's a recommendation. i have lots of recommendations.
- 00:13:21.510 --> 00:13:24.380
- I have opinions on all kinds of things.
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- Here's my recommendation to you;
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- I recommend that you put your faith in jesus christ and follow
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- Him, and you'll never regret it.
- 00:13:32.955 --> 00:13:37.860
- That's the good news.
- 00:13:37.860 --> 00:13:40.863
- The good news is i can have my sin forgiven.
- 00:13:40.863 --> 00:13:45.000
- The good news is i can have the hole in my heart filled.
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- The bad news is i am separated
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- From god by something called sin.
- 00:13:51.273 --> 00:13:54.443
- The bible says all have sinned and fallen short of god's glory.
- 00:13:54.443 --> 00:13:58.447
- There's two words used in the bible for sin.
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- There's more than two, but two in particular.
- 00:14:00.883 --> 00:14:02.751
- One means to cross a line or to trespass.
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- So if you've been walking along and you see a sign that says,
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- "no trespassing," it means don't step over that line.
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- Don't climb over that fence.
- 00:14:12.661 --> 00:14:14.230
- No trespassing.
- 00:14:14.230 --> 00:14:15.664
- And another definition of sin is to fall short of a goal,
- 00:14:15.664 --> 00:14:19.602
- Sort of like an archery game, and we're shooting jour arrows
- 00:14:19.602 --> 00:14:22.705
- Into the target.
- 00:14:22.705 --> 00:14:24.039
- Now, i may shoot my ten arrows and miss the target, hit a tree,
- 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:28.777
- Hit a cow in a field somewhere--i'm--i did--
- 00:14:28.777 --> 00:14:32.448
- And then you might shoot your arrows and get nine of 'em in,
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- But you still miss the mark.
- 00:14:36.185 --> 00:14:37.553
- So, here's what it means.
- 00:14:37.553 --> 00:14:39.255
- It means every one of us break god's commandments,
- 00:14:39.255 --> 00:14:42.091
- The ten commandments--you shall not lie, you shall not
- 00:14:42.091 --> 00:14:44.793
- Steal, you shall not take the lord's name in vain,
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- And you shall not commit adultery, and on it goes.
- 00:14:48.297 --> 00:14:51.000
- Every one of us have broken those commandments.
- 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.569
- You'll say, "but hey, i haven't broken as many as some people."
- 00:14:53.569 --> 00:14:56.171
- Check this out: one sin is enough
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- To keep you out of heaven.
- 00:14:58.274 --> 00:15:01.043
- The bible says if you offend him one point of the law,
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- You're guilty of all of it.
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- Then it's a fall short of the mark.
- 00:15:05.648 --> 00:15:07.516
- Well, what's the mark?
- 00:15:07.516 --> 00:15:08.884
- The mark is perfection.
- 00:15:08.884 --> 00:15:10.653
- Jesus said be perfect as my father in heaven is perfect.
- 00:15:10.653 --> 00:15:14.490
- You say, "great--who can live up to that?"
- 00:15:14.490 --> 00:15:16.525
- Answer: nobody.
- 00:15:16.525 --> 00:15:18.160
- That's why jesus christ died on the cross for your sin.
- 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:22.364
- That's why.
- 00:15:22.364 --> 00:15:27.102
- You say, "but greg, i'm a good person."
- 00:15:27.102 --> 00:15:30.039
- And i don't dispute that.
- 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.775
- I'm sure you're a very good person.
- 00:15:32.775 --> 00:15:34.576
- I've met some really good people who are not christians.
- 00:15:34.576 --> 00:15:38.080
- Honest, helpful--i mean, if you needed your tire changed,
- 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:42.885
- They would help you, and the christian would say,
- 00:15:42.885 --> 00:15:45.154
- "i'll go pray about that.
- 00:15:45.154 --> 00:15:47.222
- I can't do that right now."
- 00:15:47.222 --> 00:15:48.924
- And they're good people, okay?
- 00:15:48.924 --> 00:15:50.893
- But it's not about if you're a good person or not.
- 00:15:50.893 --> 00:15:54.663
- It's that you're not good enough to get to heaven on your own.
- 00:15:54.663 --> 00:15:58.334
- Heaven is not for "good people."
- 00:15:58.334 --> 00:16:00.536
- Heaven is or forgiven people.
- 00:16:00.536 --> 00:16:03.605
- You need to be forgiven of your sin.
- 00:16:03.605 --> 00:16:06.308
- This is the good news.
- 00:16:06.308 --> 00:16:09.411
- And if i believe in him, i'm forgiven.
- 00:16:09.411 --> 00:16:11.814
- Listen to this.
- 00:16:11.814 --> 00:16:13.682
- There's gonna be some bad people in heaven, and there's gonna be
- 00:16:13.682 --> 00:16:18.821
- Some good people in hell.
- 00:16:18.821 --> 00:16:21.790
- Say, "you lost me there, preacher."
- 00:16:21.790 --> 00:16:25.461
- There's gonna be some bad people in heaven, and by this i mean
- 00:16:25.461 --> 00:16:28.664
- I don't care what kind of a life you've lived, if you turn
- 00:16:28.664 --> 00:16:32.634
- From your sin and ask christ to forgive you,
- 00:16:32.634 --> 00:16:35.404
- You can have the hope of heaven.
- 00:16:35.404 --> 00:16:37.840
- You know, that's true.
- 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:40.009
- The bible tells the story of when jesus
- 00:16:43.846 --> 00:16:45.781
- Was crucified there were two men on each side of him.
- 00:16:45.781 --> 00:16:49.718
- Sometimes they call them the thieves on the cross, but they
- 00:16:49.718 --> 00:16:52.321
- Were probably guilter--guilty of a far worse crime than stealing.
- 00:16:52.321 --> 00:16:56.692
- They were probably murderers, maybe terrorists.
- 00:16:56.692 --> 00:16:59.595
- They're hanging on the cross each side of jesus, and one of
- 00:16:59.595 --> 00:17:04.199
- Those men turns to jesus and says, "lord, remember me when
- 00:17:04.199 --> 00:17:07.770
- You come into your kingdom."
- 00:17:07.770 --> 00:17:09.505
- And jesus says to that man, "truly, truly, i say to you,
- 00:17:09.505 --> 00:17:13.308
- Today you will be with me in paradise."
- 00:17:13.308 --> 00:17:18.080
- Boy, talk about bein' at the right place
- 00:17:18.080 --> 00:17:20.049
- At the right time, right?
- 00:17:20.049 --> 00:17:21.784
- "today you will be with me in paradise."
- 00:17:21.784 --> 00:17:25.454
- And that man was forgiven of his sin.
- 00:17:25.454 --> 00:17:27.523
- A bad man made it into heaven.
- 00:17:27.523 --> 00:17:29.792
- But then there can be a good person that makes it to hell,
- 00:17:29.792 --> 00:17:32.995
- And by that i mean they trust in their own good works
- 00:17:32.995 --> 00:17:37.299
- And they end up separated from god.
- 00:17:37.299 --> 00:17:39.168
- Now you say, "greg, help--i can't believe in hell.
- 00:17:39.168 --> 00:17:42.204
- How could a god of love send people to hell?"
- 00:17:42.204 --> 00:17:45.007
- Listen, god doesn't send anyone to hell.
- 00:17:45.007 --> 00:17:48.844
- The last thing that god wants is for any man or any woman
- 00:17:48.844 --> 00:17:52.548
- Uniquely made in his image to spend eternity separated from
- 00:17:52.548 --> 00:17:56.852
- Him in this horrible place called hell.
- 00:17:56.852 --> 00:18:00.089
- Hell is not made for people.
- 00:18:00.089 --> 00:18:02.191
- According to jesus, hell was created for the devil
- 00:18:02.191 --> 00:18:05.394
- And his angels.
- 00:18:05.394 --> 00:18:07.429
- No one will end up in hell unless they want
- 00:18:07.429 --> 00:18:09.765
- To end up in hell.
- 00:18:09.765 --> 00:18:11.667
- That's your choice.
- 00:18:11.667 --> 00:18:13.869
- You can choose where you spend eternity.
- 00:18:13.869 --> 00:18:16.305
- You can be with god worshipping forever as we have done tonight,
- 00:18:16.305 --> 00:18:20.909
- Or you can spend eternity away from god, worshipping yourself.
- 00:18:20.909 --> 00:18:25.814
- But here's the good news: i don't have to go to hell.
- 00:18:25.814 --> 00:18:29.051
- I can go to heaven because christ died for my sins.
- 00:18:29.051 --> 00:18:35.791
- So what do i need to do to be forgiven of my sins?
- 00:18:39.862 --> 00:18:44.233
- I need to be, according to the bible, saved.
- 00:18:44.233 --> 00:18:47.836
- I love that word "saved."
- 00:18:47.836 --> 00:18:50.172
- The bible says whoever
- 00:18:50.172 --> 00:18:51.707
- Will call upon the name of the lord will be saved.
- 00:18:51.707 --> 00:18:54.610
- You're like a drowning person that needs to be rescued.
- 00:18:54.610 --> 00:18:59.481
- You're like a person trapped in a burning building that needs to
- 00:18:59.481 --> 00:19:02.684
- Be rescued, and jesus went to the cross and died in your pace.
- 00:19:02.684 --> 00:19:07.489
- Christ came to pay a debt he did not owe because we owed
- 00:19:07.489 --> 00:19:11.326
- A debt we could not pay.
- 00:19:11.326 --> 00:19:15.998
- He died for you.
- 00:19:15.998 --> 00:19:17.866
- He died for me.
- 00:19:17.866 --> 00:19:20.435
- He took the judgment of god upon himself so i don't have to face
- 00:19:20.435 --> 00:19:23.739
- That judgment, and then he rose again from the dead.
- 00:19:23.739 --> 00:19:29.845
- The bible tells the story of a very hardened man
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- Who was a roman soldier in charge of the jail.
- 00:19:33.515 --> 00:19:37.319
- And they arrested the apostles, paul and silas, and threw
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- 'em into this dungeon, this hellhole, and the bible says
- 00:19:41.957 --> 00:19:46.929
- At midnight, paul and silas began to sing praises to god,
- 00:19:46.929 --> 00:19:50.465
- And the other prisoners were listening.
- 00:19:50.465 --> 00:19:53.001
- And that word "listening" means they listened with pleasure,
- 00:19:53.001 --> 00:19:56.572
- 'cause they probably never heard anyone sing
- 00:19:56.572 --> 00:19:58.774
- In a prison like that before.
- 00:19:58.774 --> 00:20:00.909
- Then an earthquake came, and the walls of the prison shook
- 00:20:00.909 --> 00:20:04.680
- And collapsed, and--and the roman soldier in charge
- 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.649
- Pulled his sword out ready to kill himself
- 00:20:07.649 --> 00:20:09.585
- Because if his prisoners' escape.
- 00:20:09.585 --> 00:20:11.620
- He'd be held responsible.
- 00:20:11.620 --> 00:20:13.088
- And paul says, "stop!
- 00:20:13.088 --> 00:20:14.523
- Don't hurt yourself, we're still here.
- 00:20:14.523 --> 00:20:16.592
- And that roman jailer said,
- 00:20:16.592 --> 00:20:18.994
- "sir, what must i do to be saved?"
- 00:20:18.994 --> 00:20:21.997
- And paul said, "believe in the lord jesus christ
- 00:20:21.997 --> 00:20:24.800
- And you will be saved.
- 00:20:24.800 --> 00:20:26.735
- That's it."
- 00:20:26.735 --> 00:20:30.505
- Now, we all know the story of the sinking of the titanic.
- 00:20:32.574 --> 00:20:36.912
- We know how jack and rose were onboard.
- 00:20:36.912 --> 00:20:41.550
- Kate winslet and leonardo dicaprio.
- 00:20:41.550 --> 00:20:44.286
- And we don't understand why jack couldn't fit on that door
- 00:20:44.286 --> 00:20:47.089
- With rose, right?
- 00:20:47.089 --> 00:20:49.324
- Come on--could somehow work that out, couldn't you?
- 00:20:49.324 --> 00:20:52.594
- That's not a true story, but the story of the titanic had
- 00:20:52.594 --> 00:20:58.333
- Captured so many people and we remember this horrible tragedy
- 00:20:58.333 --> 00:21:03.305
- That just happened at this small submersible craft that went down
- 00:21:03.305 --> 00:21:07.643
- And the people in it died, and they were on their way
- 00:21:07.643 --> 00:21:11.046
- To visit the titanic.
- 00:21:11.046 --> 00:21:12.748
- Well, i wanna tell you a true story from the titanic.
- 00:21:12.748 --> 00:21:16.385
- The hero of the titanic.
- 00:21:16.385 --> 00:21:18.587
- You probably never heard of him.
- 00:21:18.587 --> 00:21:20.022
- His name was john harper.
- 00:21:20.022 --> 00:21:21.757
- John harper was a well-known evangelist from scotland.
- 00:21:21.757 --> 00:21:25.327
- He had been asked to speak in america, so he boarded
- 00:21:25.327 --> 00:21:27.796
- Passage on the titanic.
- 00:21:27.796 --> 00:21:31.066
- And of course, that ship was declared unsinkable, wasn't it?
- 00:21:31.066 --> 00:21:35.170
- But it hit an iceberg and began to take on water.
- 00:21:35.170 --> 00:21:37.939
- Some of the most wealthy people in all the world were onboard,
- 00:21:37.939 --> 00:21:41.943
- And harper had his daughter onboard.
- 00:21:41.943 --> 00:21:45.247
- He got her safely on a lifeboat, and he took his life jacket,
- 00:21:45.247 --> 00:21:49.351
- Knowing he wasn't gonna survive, and gave it to another
- 00:21:49.351 --> 00:21:52.387
- Passenger, and then as he went into the water, he was hanging
- 00:21:52.387 --> 00:21:55.991
- Onto a piece of debris, and he swam over to people
- 00:21:55.991 --> 00:21:59.161
- And he said, "are you saved?"
- 00:21:59.161 --> 00:22:01.930
- And then he said, "believe in the lord jesus christ
- 00:22:01.930 --> 00:22:04.199
- And you'll be saved."
- 00:22:04.199 --> 00:22:05.634
- He swam from person to person in the icy waters of the ocean
- 00:22:05.634 --> 00:22:09.204
- Saying "are you saved?
- 00:22:09.204 --> 00:22:12.874
- One survivor recalls clinging to one of the pieces of debris
- 00:22:16.545 --> 00:22:20.415
- From titanic, and harper floated near him.
- 00:22:20.415 --> 00:22:24.686
- Harper cried out, "man, are you saved?"
- 00:22:24.686 --> 00:22:27.422
- He said, "i'm not."
- 00:22:27.422 --> 00:22:29.057
- Harper says, "believe in the lord jesus christ
- 00:22:29.057 --> 00:22:31.159
- And you'll be saved."
- 00:22:31.159 --> 00:22:33.261
- And then john harper drowned.
- 00:22:33.261 --> 00:22:36.231
- That same man in a public meeting four years later
- 00:22:36.231 --> 00:22:38.700
- Remembered that fateful night, and he said, and i quote,
- 00:22:38.700 --> 00:22:42.371
- "there alone in the night with two miles of water under me,
- 00:22:42.371 --> 00:22:45.807
- I believed.
- 00:22:45.807 --> 00:22:47.442
- I was john harper's last convert."
- 00:22:47.442 --> 00:22:50.278
- You see.
- 00:22:50.278 --> 00:22:54.282
- And i ask you tonight, are you saved?
- 00:22:58.086 --> 00:23:01.556
- Have you believed in the lord jesus christ?
- 00:23:01.556 --> 00:23:03.125
- Just say, "i don't know if i am or not.
- 00:23:03.125 --> 00:23:05.494
- How can i know?"
- 00:23:05.494 --> 00:23:07.095
- Listen, here's what i wanna say in closing.
- 00:23:07.095 --> 00:23:10.232
- If you want a relationship with god, if you wanna have your sins
- 00:23:10.232 --> 00:23:14.169
- Forgiven, if you wanna know you'll go to heaven when you
- 00:23:14.169 --> 00:23:16.505
- Die, if you wanna fill that hole in your life, if you wanna stop
- 00:23:16.505 --> 00:23:19.941
- Living in guilt and fear of death and all the other things
- 00:23:19.941 --> 00:23:24.146
- Of this life without god, start here: realize you're a sinner.
- 00:23:24.146 --> 00:23:29.918
- We're all sinners.
- 00:23:29.918 --> 00:23:31.820
- We've all broken god's commandments.
- 00:23:31.820 --> 00:23:33.221
- Just own it. admit it.
- 00:23:33.221 --> 00:23:35.290
- Stop blaming everybody else. take responsibility.
- 00:23:35.290 --> 00:23:37.592
- I'm a sinner.
- 00:23:37.592 --> 00:23:38.960
- Number two, recognize christ died on the cross for you.
- 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:43.031
- The crucifixion was not an accident; it was not a mistake.
- 00:23:43.031 --> 00:23:46.668
- Jesus came to this earth to go to the cross and die
- 00:23:46.668 --> 00:23:49.704
- For the sin of the world.
- 00:23:49.704 --> 00:23:51.573
- Jesus put it this way: "for god so loved the world, he gave
- 00:23:51.573 --> 00:23:55.110
- His only begotten son, that whosoever believes in him
- 00:23:55.110 --> 00:23:58.513
- Should not perish, but have everlasting life."
- 00:23:58.513 --> 00:24:05.520
- Christ died for you because he loves you.
- 00:24:09.458 --> 00:24:12.093
- Because he knew there was no other way for you
- 00:24:12.093 --> 00:24:14.729
- To be made right with god.
- 00:24:14.729 --> 00:24:16.565
- And then you need to repent of your sin.
- 00:24:16.565 --> 00:24:19.267
- The word "repent" means to change your direction in life.
- 00:24:19.267 --> 00:24:23.705
- The bible says god has commanded people everywhere to repent.
- 00:24:23.705 --> 00:24:27.642
- It's actually a military term.
- 00:24:27.642 --> 00:24:29.678
- It means to do an about face.
- 00:24:29.678 --> 00:24:32.347
- So stop running from god; run toward god.
- 00:24:32.347 --> 00:24:35.283
- Stop living that life you've been living.
- 00:24:35.283 --> 00:24:37.519
- Repent, and then receive christ into your life.
- 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:41.790
- What did paul say to that roman jailer?
- 00:24:41.790 --> 00:24:44.559
- He said, "believe on the lord jesus christ."
- 00:24:44.559 --> 00:24:47.963
- You need to say, "jesus, come and live inside of me.
- 00:24:47.963 --> 00:24:51.566
- Forgive me of my sin.
- 00:24:51.566 --> 00:24:53.902
- I want to know you in a personal way.
- 00:24:53.902 --> 00:24:57.105
- Right now, jesu stands at the door of your life and he knocks,
- 00:24:57.105 --> 00:25:01.376
- And he says if you'll hear his voice and open the door,
- 00:25:01.376 --> 00:25:04.179
- He will come in.
- 00:25:04.179 --> 00:25:06.047
- Only you can open the door of your heart, so to speak.
- 00:25:06.047 --> 00:25:10.485
- Someone else can't open it for you.
- 00:25:10.485 --> 00:25:13.021
- You need to open it yourself.
- 00:25:13.021 --> 00:25:16.191
- You must do it now.
- 00:25:16.191 --> 00:25:18.460
- Now is the time.
- 00:25:18.460 --> 00:25:20.195
- Today is the day of salvation, the bible says.
- 00:25:20.195 --> 00:25:22.063
- Don't say "i'll do it in a week" or in a month or in a year.
- 00:25:22.063 --> 00:25:25.233
- Listen, you may never have another opportunity like you
- 00:25:25.233 --> 00:25:28.136
- Have right here, right now.
- 00:25:28.136 --> 00:25:30.772
- Don't let it slip by.
- 00:25:30.772 --> 00:25:34.476
- 'cause you don't know how long you're gonna live.
- 00:25:34.476 --> 00:25:36.745
- Nor do i.
- 00:25:36.745 --> 00:25:38.179
- Someone's name is gonna end up
- 00:25:38.179 --> 00:25:39.581
- In that obituary column tomorrow.
- 00:25:39.581 --> 00:25:42.684
- It could be any of us here right now.
- 00:25:42.684 --> 00:25:45.353
- So prepare to meet your god.
- 00:25:45.353 --> 00:25:52.561
- Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie, i've got some good news for you.
- 00:25:56.698 --> 00:25:59.434
- God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
- 00:25:59.434 --> 00:26:03.104
- Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
- 00:26:03.104 --> 00:26:06.708
- Because we've all broken his commandments.
- 00:26:06.708 --> 00:26:09.578
- But the good news is that 2,000 years ago, god sent
- 00:26:09.578 --> 00:26:13.114
- His son, jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin,
- 00:26:13.114 --> 00:26:17.052
- And then to rise again from the dead.
- 00:26:17.052 --> 00:26:19.821
- The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
- 00:26:19.821 --> 00:26:23.224
- To come into your life right now.
- 00:26:23.224 --> 00:26:25.460
- Would you like your sin forgiven?
- 00:26:25.460 --> 00:26:27.529
- Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
- 00:26:27.529 --> 00:26:30.665
- If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
- 00:26:30.665 --> 00:26:34.002
- Just say," lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
- 00:26:34.002 --> 00:26:37.505
- You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
- 00:26:37.505 --> 00:26:41.009
- I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
- 00:26:41.009 --> 00:26:44.212
- From this moment forward."
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- Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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- If you did, god in heaven
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- Has heard you, and i wanna
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- Send you a new testament
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- To start reading.
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- Female announcer: jesus says that where two or three are
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- Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
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- We are all different.
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- We have different interests, different personalities,
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- Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
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- But here, we have a deep connection,
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- And you are welcome here.
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- This is harvest.
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