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Greg Laurie - Happiness: Upside Down Living

July 1, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Happiness: Upside Down Living
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Happiness: Upside Down Living | July 1, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: there's a simple acronym you can use
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  • To sum it up: j-o-y.
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  • J is for jesus, o is for others, y is for yourself.
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  • You want to live a happy life?
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  • You want to live a joyful life?
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  • Jesus, others, yourself.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: we're looking at the book of philippians together,
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  • And as i pointed out earlier, the theme of
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  • This book is happiness.
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  • Now, if you're going to go to the culture and say,
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  • "how can i be a happy person?"
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  • The answer would in so many words be,
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  • "be a selfish person.
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  • Focus on yourself.
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  • Love yourself.
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  • Think about yourself.
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  • Esteem yourself."
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  • It's all about self, and the bible gives a different answer.
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  • The bible, in effect, to loosely paraphrase,
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  • Tells us if we want to be happy we should not be selfish,
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  • But rather it tells us if we want to be happy we need to be
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  • Selfless, and that certainly bubbles up here
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  • In philippians chapter 2.
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  • Jesus said it is more blessed or happy to give
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  • Than it is to receive.
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  • Well, we think, "no, it's more happy to get stuff
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  • Than it is to give stuff."
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  • No, the opposite is the case according to jesus
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  • And the rest of the bible.
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  • True fulfillment does not come by putting our needs first,
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  • But it comes by putting the needs of others first,
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  • And that's why i've called this message "upside down living"
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  • Because that flies in the face of conventional wisdom today.
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  • The bible teaches the way to happiness is sadness.
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  • Does that seem strange?
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  • Well, it's actually what jesus said.
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  • He said, "blessed are they that mourn,
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  • For they shall be comforted."
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  • Another way you could translate it, because remember,
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  • Whenever you see the word blessed in the bible,
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  • It can be interchanged with the word happy.
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  • So in effect, jesus is saying happy are the unhappy.
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  • How could that be?
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  • Well, you see, when i come before god and i see myself as i
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  • Really am and i'm thus unhappy, i mourn over my sinful condition
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  • And then i turn from my sins and put my trust in christ,
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  • I will find the true happiness that comes from the forgiveness
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  • Of sins because the bible says happy is the man or the woman
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  • Whose sins are forgiven.
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  • And this is so different than what culture tells us,
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  • But a lot of people are figuring this out.
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  • You've probably heard of stephen king,
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  • Very successful author.
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  • I don't know if you're aware of this, but
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  • He had a serious automobile accident a number of years ago.
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  • So he wrote an article about it, and the title of the article was
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  • "you can't take it with you."
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  • Excuse me, the name of the--title of the article
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  • Is "what you can pass on," and this is what he says
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  • In the article, and i'm quoting.
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  • This is stephen king speaking about his experience.
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  • "a couple of years ago, i found out what you can't
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  • Take it with you means.
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  • I found out while i was lying in a ditch at the side of a country
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  • Road covered in mud and blood, with a tibia of my right leg
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  • Pointing out the side of my jeans like a branch of a tree
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  • Taken down in a thunderstorm.
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  • I had a mastercard in my wallet, but when you're lying in a ditch
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  • With broken glass in your hair, no one accepts mastercard."
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  • King continues, "i got a painful but extremely valuable look at
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  • Life's backstage truths.
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  • We come in naked and broke.
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  • We may be dressed when we go out,
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  • But we're just as broke.
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  • Warren buffett, he's going to go out broke.
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  • Bill gates, going out broke.
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  • Tom hanks," king continues to write, "going out broke.
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  • Steve king broke, not a crying dime.
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  • All of the money you earn, all the stocks you buy,
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  • All the mutual funds you trade; all of this
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  • Is mostly smoke and mirrors.
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  • It's still going to be quarter past getting late whether you
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  • Tell the time on a timex or a rolex.
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  • No matter how large your bank account,
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  • No matter how many credit cards you have,
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  • Sooner or later things will begin to go wrong,
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  • With the only things you have that you can really call your
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  • Own: your body, your spirit, and your mind.
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  • So i want you to consider making your life one long gift to
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  • Others," king writes, "and why not.
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  • All you have is on loan anyway.
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  • All that lasts is what you pass on."
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  • Then he concludes, "so i ask you to begin giving
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  • And continue as you began.
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  • I think you'll find in the end you got far more than you ever
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  • Had and did more good than you had ever dreamed," end quote.
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  • Wow, that's amazing conclusions.
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  • I don't know that stephen king believes in
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  • Jesus christ, but i'll say this, he has certainly landed on
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  • Some important biblical principles that tell
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  • Us that it's not about us.
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  • The world does not revolve around us,
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  • And if we try to make it revolve around us, we
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  • Will be very unhappy people.
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  • So it's about others, putting others first.
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  • But this isn't so easy, is it?
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  • Because, well, there are people that just irritate us or we
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  • Don't like to be around them, and sometimes that's our
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  • Husband or our wife or our parents
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  • Or our kids or coworkers or people we're around a lot.
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  • And we say, "these people are so irritating."
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  • Newsflash, did it ever occur to you that you are an irritating
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  • Person to someone else?
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  • I guarantee it's true.
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  • I'm sure i'm an irritating person to quite a few people.
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  • And so that's something we need to understand,
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  • That, you know, there are people that we're not going to
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  • Necessarily be drawn to, but at the same time, we are to love
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  • Them, especially if they're in the church because we are all
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  • Part of the family of god.
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  • So here's what the apostle paul is saying here in philippians.
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  • He's saying you need a new paradigm,
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  • You need a new way of thinking, and here it is.
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  • Let's read about it.
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  • Philippians chapter 2, starting in verse 1, paul writes,
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  • "therefore if there's any consolation in christ,
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  • If any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the spirit,
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  • If any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy that you be
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  • Like-minded; having the same love,
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  • Being of one accord, of one mind.
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  • Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit,
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  • But in lowliness of mind let each esteem
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  • Others better than themselves.
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  • Let each of you look out not only for his own interests but
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  • For the interests of others."
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • Here are the words of paul from a modern translation,
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  • Same verses.
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  • "don't push your way to the front,
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  • Don't sweet talk your way to the top.
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  • Put yourself aside and help others get ahead.
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  • Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage.
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  • Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand."
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  • Are you kidding me?
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  • If you live this way, it'll change
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  • Everything about your life.
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  • You see, the--'cause the culture does not say this,
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  • And if we go back historically, this is not what
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  • We learn from even civilizations.
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  • I mean, if you look at all the great kingdoms of the world that
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  • Have come and gone, everything is always about self.
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  • Greece effectively said, "be wise.
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  • Know yourself."
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  • Rome said, "be strong.
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  • Discipline yourself."
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  • Epicureanism, which is the pursuit of pleasure,
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  • Says, "be sensuous.
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  • Enjoy yourself."
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  • Education says, "be resourceful.
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  • Educate yourself."
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  • Psychology says, "be confident.
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  • Assert yourself."
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  • Materialism says, "be possessive.
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  • Please yourself."
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  • Humanism says, "be capable.
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  • Believe in yourself."
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  • Pride says, "be superior.
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  • Promote yourself."
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  • Jesus christ says, "be unselfish.
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  • Humble yourself."
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  • "humble myself?
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  • That seems like a recipe for disaster in the world today."
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  • In fact, when we think of humility and meekness,
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  • We don't think of those as virtues,
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  • We think of those as deficiencies.
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  • But yet did not jesus say, "blessed are the meek,
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  • For they shall inherit the earth?"
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  • And christ said of himself, "i am meek and lowly in heart,
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  • So come unto me."
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  • But you need to understand there's a big difference between
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  • Weakness and meekness.
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  • Let's say that somebody hits you in the face and you don't hit
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  • Them back, and the reason you don't hit them back is because
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  • You're weak and you're afraid.
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  • But let's say that you're trained in mixed martial arts
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  • And you're quite a street fighter and somebody hits you in
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  • The face and you don't hit them back.
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  • That's not weakness, that's meekness.
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  • See, meekness is power under constraint.
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  • When someone gets on the back of a stallion and rides it at full
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  • Speed and then pulls back on the reins and the horse stops,
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  • That horse is being meek.
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  • It's submitting itself to the will of the rider.
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  • It has the strength to go on, but it submits.
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  • So when i'm being meek it doesn't mean i'm weak;
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  • It means that i'm submitting myself to god,
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  • And that is how i am to live as a believer.
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  • God is saying you want real happiness and genuine success,
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  • Then put jesus first and others second.
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  • In fact, there's a simple acronym you can use
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  • To sum it up: j-o-y.
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  • J is for jesus, o is for others, y is for yourself.
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  • You want to live a happy life?
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  • You want to live a joyful life?
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  • Jesus, others, yourself.
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  • Here it is simplified.
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  • Following jesus and loving others.
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  • Following jesus and loving others.
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  • What did jesus say?
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  • He said if you love the lord your god with all of your heart,
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  • Soul, and your mind and love your neighbor as yourself,
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  • You fulfill all of the commandments.
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  • See, it's just so simple if we would focus on that,
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  • But a lot of the times we're not focusing on that.
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  • We're not putting jesus first, we're putting ourself first,
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  • And as a result, we find ourselves depressed.
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  • Listen, if you find yourself down on the doldrums as a
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  • Christian, if you find yourself depressed,
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  • I have a ten-step solution to depression.
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  • So if you're taking notes, write this down.
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  • Ten steps to get rid of your depression.
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  • Are you ready?
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  • Step number one, do something for someone
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  • Who has greater needs than you.
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  • Do something for someone who has greater needs than you.
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  • Go to a convalescent home and visit someone
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  • Who's staying there.
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  • Go to skid row on one of our missions and reach out to people
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  • That are literally living on the street.
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  • Go to someone with a need.
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  • Go to someone who has a greater need than you.
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  • That's step number one. okay, here's step number two.
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  • Repeat step number one nine more times.
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  • Now, listen, i'm not dismissing clinical depression.
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  • I know that can be very real.
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  • But i'm just talking about that general kind of depression we
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  • Can find ourselves in that, frankly, is sometimes a result
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  • Of just being selfish.
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  • And instead of being selfish, try being selfless.
  • 00:12:32.450 --> 00:12:37.689
  • In other words, stop thinking so much about yourself.
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  • Proverbs 11:25 says, "those that refresh others
  • 00:12:41.626 --> 00:12:45.964
  • Will be refreshed themselves."
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  • Greg: you know, i've heard people say,
  • 00:12:53.138 --> 00:12:54.472
  • "oh, it's so hard to be a christian.
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  • I tried and i failed."
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  • Let me say something that might surprise you.
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  • It's not hard to be a christian, it's impossible without
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  • The help of the holy spirit.
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  • See, with god all things are possible.
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  • He can give me the strength and the power to live the life he
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  • Has called us to live.
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  • Apart from him, the bible says, i can do nothing.
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  • Jesus said that.
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  • But then scripture also tells me, paul speaking, i can do
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  • All things through christ who strengthens me.
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  • So stop trying to live the christian life
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  • In your own power.
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  • Stop trying to do it in your own strength and instead say,
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  • "lord, i need your help each and every day."
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  • Greg: all right, so let's identify some key points here
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  • From philippians chapter 2.
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  • If you're taking notes, write this down.
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  • Never let selfishness or conceit be your motive.
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  • Again, never let selfishness or conceit be your motive.
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  • Look at verse 3, "let nothing be done through
  • 00:13:59.037 --> 00:14:01.673
  • Selfish ambition or conceit."
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  • As the new living translation puts it, "don't be selfish.
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  • Don't live to make a good impression on others."
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  • So first i start with self, and it's interesting.
  • 00:14:12.917 --> 00:14:15.486
  • Before anything else is said, paul sort of drills down on this
  • 00:14:15.486 --> 00:14:20.558
  • Because the love of self is probably at the root of maybe
  • 00:14:20.558 --> 00:14:26.898
  • All of my problems, but if not all, certainly most of them
  • 00:14:26.898 --> 00:14:31.502
  • Because we want our own way.
  • 00:14:31.502 --> 00:14:34.706
  • James puts it this way in james 4:1 to 2: "where do you think
  • 00:14:34.706 --> 00:14:39.310
  • All these appalling wars and quarrels come from?
  • 00:14:39.310 --> 00:14:41.980
  • Do you think they just happen?
  • 00:14:41.980 --> 00:14:43.481
  • Think again.
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  • They come about because you want your own way and you fight for
  • 00:14:44.816 --> 00:14:49.854
  • It deep inside yourselves."
  • 00:14:49.854 --> 00:14:52.257
  • You want your own way, and by the way, this goes way,
  • 00:14:52.257 --> 00:14:54.959
  • Way back to our earliest days as a kid.
  • 00:14:54.959 --> 00:14:58.396
  • When my granddaughter stella was a very little girl, i remember i
  • 00:14:58.396 --> 00:15:02.333
  • Took her to a toy store once, and they had a little dollhouse
  • 00:15:02.333 --> 00:15:07.438
  • Set up on a small table, low to the ground
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  • That the kids could access.
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  • So, you know, the house had little bits of furniture and
  • 00:15:12.810 --> 00:15:16.147
  • Dolls and such, and she went over and started organizing it
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  • And putting the little figures in the chairs.
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  • I thought it's so cute.
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  • Girls are so--you know, they love to do things like that.
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  • And i'm just watching in amazement,
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  • And i'm thinking this out to myself: "girls are so good.
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  • They're just so good.
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  • Look at her with the little dollhouse."
  • 00:15:33.131 --> 00:15:35.033
  • And suddenly a man comes walking in with a little boy about the
  • 00:15:35.033 --> 00:15:38.836
  • Age of stella and, i'm not making this up,
  • 00:15:38.836 --> 00:15:41.372
  • This boy was on a leash.
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  • He had some kind of a harness around the boy,
  • 00:15:43.608 --> 00:15:46.611
  • Some kind of a thing he was wearing,
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  • And a leash attached to it, and the boy would move and he'd
  • 00:15:48.379 --> 00:15:50.348
  • Pull the boy back, and i looked, i thought, "that's so cruel.
  • 00:15:50.348 --> 00:15:53.451
  • Poor little boy."
  • 00:15:53.451 --> 00:15:54.786
  • But suddenly here's stella, who has just set up this little
  • 00:15:54.786 --> 00:15:57.822
  • Dollhouse so perfectly, so meticulous in details,
  • 00:15:57.822 --> 00:16:02.060
  • And this boy is lunging at the dollhouse.
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  • He wants to destroy it, and the man is pulling on the leash and
  • 00:16:05.830 --> 00:16:09.434
  • I'm thinking, "put that leash harder."
  • 00:16:09.434 --> 00:16:11.469
  • And i just thought to myself, "you know what?
  • 00:16:11.469 --> 00:16:13.304
  • Boys are bad, and girls are good."
  • 00:16:13.304 --> 00:16:17.709
  • Well, a couple of days later, we were with stella and her parents
  • 00:16:17.709 --> 00:16:23.214
  • And the--some folks came over, and they
  • 00:16:23.214 --> 00:16:26.084
  • Had their little child with them.
  • 00:16:26.084 --> 00:16:27.418
  • Actually, it was more of a little toddler baby.
  • 00:16:27.418 --> 00:16:29.687
  • So little younger than stella.
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  • And the little baby reached up on a little table to grab some
  • 00:16:31.889 --> 00:16:35.560
  • Toy and stella took the baby's hand and pushed it away.
  • 00:16:35.560 --> 00:16:39.297
  • And i thought, "oh, no.
  • 00:16:39.297 --> 00:16:41.933
  • Girls are bad, too, hmm."
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  • Yeah, we're all bad.
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  • We're bad to the bone.
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  • We're sinners, and we're selfish.
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  • I mean, think of all the problems we
  • 00:16:51.109 --> 00:16:52.443
  • Have in our culture today.
  • 00:16:52.443 --> 00:16:54.278
  • Think of immorality as an example.
  • 00:16:54.278 --> 00:16:57.348
  • Why do people have sex before marriage?
  • 00:16:57.348 --> 00:16:59.717
  • Selfishness.
  • 00:16:59.717 --> 00:17:01.285
  • Why do they commit adultery?
  • 00:17:01.285 --> 00:17:03.154
  • Again, selfishness.
  • 00:17:03.154 --> 00:17:05.256
  • Why do most marriages fall apart?
  • 00:17:05.256 --> 00:17:08.226
  • If i had to pick one word to sum it up, selfishness.
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  • Oh yeah, we could talk about communication breakdown and we
  • 00:17:11.329 --> 00:17:14.866
  • Could talk about financial disagreements,
  • 00:17:14.866 --> 00:17:17.168
  • But really, if you get to the bottom line, it's selfishness.
  • 00:17:17.168 --> 00:17:21.339
  • "i want that person to do what i want them to do."
  • 00:17:21.339 --> 00:17:25.743
  • We won't put that person first.
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  • We want to put ourself first.
  • 00:17:27.478 --> 00:17:31.282
  • Talking about immorality, look at all
  • 00:17:31.282 --> 00:17:32.884
  • The unwanted pregnancies today.
  • 00:17:32.884 --> 00:17:35.353
  • And what do so many do?
  • 00:17:35.353 --> 00:17:36.721
  • They go and get an abortion.
  • 00:17:36.721 --> 00:17:38.556
  • What's more selfish than that?
  • 00:17:38.556 --> 00:17:41.092
  • Since the passing of roe v. wade in the early '70s,
  • 00:17:41.092 --> 00:17:44.462
  • Listen to this, 58 million babies have been aborted.
  • 00:17:44.462 --> 00:17:51.169
  • Let me put it more clearly.
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  • Fifty-eight million unborn children have been murdered in
  • 00:17:55.139 --> 00:18:00.211
  • The womb, and to me this is a travesty.
  • 00:18:00.211 --> 00:18:03.815
  • But it's selfishness.
  • 00:18:03.815 --> 00:18:05.416
  • Selfishness, it is at the root of so many problems
  • 00:18:05.416 --> 00:18:09.954
  • Where it's all about me.
  • 00:18:09.954 --> 00:18:12.123
  • Point number two, always regard others as
  • 00:18:12.123 --> 00:18:16.327
  • More important than yourself.
  • 00:18:16.327 --> 00:18:19.630
  • Again, look at verse 3.
  • 00:18:19.630 --> 00:18:20.965
  • "in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others
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  • Better than themselves."
  • 00:18:24.402 --> 00:18:26.204
  • Always regard others as more important than yourself.
  • 00:18:26.204 --> 00:18:30.608
  • Now, by the way, this is important
  • 00:18:30.608 --> 00:18:33.044
  • Because it speaks of thinking.
  • 00:18:33.044 --> 00:18:36.647
  • Thinking of others as better than yourself,
  • 00:18:36.647 --> 00:18:38.716
  • And the word that paul uses here for thinking is from a verb that
  • 00:18:38.716 --> 00:18:42.687
  • Means more than just having an opinion.
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  • It refers to a carefully thought-out conclusion
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  • Based on the truth.
  • 00:18:48.626 --> 00:18:51.095
  • So here's what it's saying.
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  • Don't just pretend others are more important than you,
  • 00:18:52.730 --> 00:18:58.536
  • Actually believe they're more important than you because they
  • 00:18:58.536 --> 00:19:04.242
  • Are more important than you.
  • 00:19:04.242 --> 00:19:07.578
  • I mean, what do we get off thinking we're
  • 00:19:07.578 --> 00:19:09.847
  • Better than somebody else?
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  • Think about the thoughts that go through our minds,
  • 00:19:11.849 --> 00:19:16.220
  • The evil thoughts, the horrible things.
  • 00:19:16.220 --> 00:19:18.756
  • You know, if you want to know how to best consider someone
  • 00:19:18.756 --> 00:19:22.426
  • Above yourself, just take a hard look at yourself,
  • 00:19:22.426 --> 00:19:26.030
  • Consider your own sins.
  • 00:19:26.030 --> 00:19:29.066
  • I mean, really knowing this about ourselves,
  • 00:19:29.066 --> 00:19:31.903
  • How can we be so hard on others?
  • 00:19:31.903 --> 00:19:35.139
  • Jeremiah 17:9, "the human heart is so desperate,
  • 00:19:35.139 --> 00:19:40.178
  • And it's so deceitful and wicked.
  • 00:19:40.178 --> 00:19:43.181
  • Who really knows how bad it is?"
  • 00:19:43.181 --> 00:19:46.717
  • The great evangelist d.l. moody once said,
  • 00:19:46.717 --> 00:19:48.986
  • Quote, "i have more trouble with d.l. moody than
  • 00:19:48.986 --> 00:19:52.123
  • Any other man i know," end quote.
  • 00:19:52.123 --> 00:19:55.092
  • That's true.
  • 00:19:55.092 --> 00:19:56.427
  • I have more trouble with greg laurie than any man i know.
  • 00:19:56.427 --> 00:19:59.964
  • Honestly, our thinking about others all of the time,
  • 00:19:59.964 --> 00:20:03.901
  • But here's the super cool thing about that.
  • 00:20:03.901 --> 00:20:06.571
  • The fringe benefit is happiness.
  • 00:20:06.571 --> 00:20:09.941
  • It seems like, "no, think about yourself.
  • 00:20:09.941 --> 00:20:11.842
  • Make the world revolve around yourself.
  • 00:20:11.842 --> 00:20:13.544
  • Only indulge yourself."
  • 00:20:13.544 --> 00:20:15.313
  • That leads to unhappiness and misery and depression.
  • 00:20:15.313 --> 00:20:18.749
  • But when you put others first and you think about them as
  • 00:20:18.749 --> 00:20:21.719
  • Above you because you realize they are above you,
  • 00:20:21.719 --> 00:20:26.490
  • Suddenly you find yourself a happy person as a result.
  • 00:20:26.490 --> 00:20:29.694
  • Isn't that interesting? it's upside-down living.
  • 00:20:29.694 --> 00:20:32.597
  • The way to happiness is sadness.
  • 00:20:32.597 --> 00:20:35.766
  • The way to up is down.
  • 00:20:35.766 --> 00:20:39.904
  • Point number three, don't limit your attention
  • 00:20:39.904 --> 00:20:43.107
  • To your own personal interests.
  • 00:20:43.107 --> 00:20:46.244
  • Again, don't limit your attention
  • 00:20:46.244 --> 00:20:48.646
  • To your own personal interests.
  • 00:20:48.646 --> 00:20:50.381
  • Look at verse 4.
  • 00:20:50.381 --> 00:20:51.949
  • It says, "look out not only for your own interests but for the
  • 00:20:51.949 --> 00:20:56.420
  • Interests of others."
  • 00:20:56.420 --> 00:20:57.922
  • Notice it says look out not only for your own interests.
  • 00:20:57.922 --> 00:21:01.492
  • You know, you do need to look out for
  • 00:21:01.492 --> 00:21:03.127
  • Some of your own interests.
  • 00:21:03.127 --> 00:21:05.730
  • Hey, we want you to look out for your own interests.
  • 00:21:05.730 --> 00:21:08.799
  • We want you to take a shower.
  • 00:21:08.799 --> 00:21:11.569
  • We want you to pay your bills.
  • 00:21:11.569 --> 00:21:15.172
  • We want you to be a respectable member of society,
  • 00:21:15.172 --> 00:21:20.511
  • But for some people that's so hard because they're so
  • 00:21:20.511 --> 00:21:22.680
  • Self-absorbed all they want to do is think about themself
  • 00:21:22.680 --> 00:21:25.950
  • And talk about themself.
  • 00:21:25.950 --> 00:21:27.952
  • As benjamin disraeli once said, quote, "talk to a man
  • 00:21:27.952 --> 00:21:31.455
  • About himself and he'll listen for hours," end quote.
  • 00:21:31.455 --> 00:21:36.160
  • So this is a tall order admittedly,
  • 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:38.896
  • And it's not easy for me, and it's not easy for anyone.
  • 00:21:38.896 --> 00:21:42.433
  • So how do we do this?
  • 00:21:42.433 --> 00:21:43.801
  • Well, we need an example, and we need more than an example.
  • 00:21:43.801 --> 00:21:47.104
  • We need help.
  • 00:21:47.104 --> 00:21:48.439
  • Who is the greatest example of selflessness and sacrifice?
  • 00:21:48.439 --> 00:21:53.377
  • It's jesus christ. let's read about that now.
  • 00:21:53.377 --> 00:21:56.414
  • Go to philippians 2, look at verse 5.
  • 00:21:56.414 --> 00:21:58.849
  • "let this mind be in you which was also in christ jesus,
  • 00:21:58.849 --> 00:22:02.953
  • Who being in the form of god, did not consider it robbery to
  • 00:22:02.953 --> 00:22:06.157
  • Be equal with god but made himself of no reputation."
  • 00:22:06.157 --> 00:22:10.528
  • Underline that phrase, if you would.
  • 00:22:10.528 --> 00:22:12.396
  • "taking the form of a bondservant and coming
  • 00:22:12.396 --> 00:22:15.166
  • In the likeness of men.
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  • And being found in appearance as a man,
  • 00:22:17.068 --> 00:22:19.537
  • He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death,
  • 00:22:19.537 --> 00:22:22.807
  • Even the death of the cross."
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  • Verse 9, "therefore god has highly exalted him and given him
  • 00:22:24.842 --> 00:22:29.580
  • The name that is above every name;
  • 00:22:29.580 --> 00:22:32.983
  • That at the name of jesus every knee will bow of those in heaven
  • 00:22:32.983 --> 00:22:36.220
  • And those on earth and those under the earth,
  • 00:22:36.220 --> 00:22:38.823
  • And every tongue will confess that jesus christ is lord to the
  • 00:22:38.823 --> 00:22:43.294
  • Glory of god the father."
  • 00:22:43.294 --> 00:22:45.863
  • So here's the example now.
  • 00:22:45.863 --> 00:22:47.531
  • When jesus walked this earth, he was tired like any man.
  • 00:22:47.531 --> 00:22:50.134
  • Remember when he fell asleep in the lower part of the boat?
  • 00:22:50.134 --> 00:22:53.637
  • Listen, he felt sorrow like any man.
  • 00:22:53.637 --> 00:22:56.440
  • At the tomb of lazarus, we read that jesus wept.
  • 00:22:56.440 --> 00:23:00.378
  • And i bring this up because sometimes we might say,
  • 00:23:00.378 --> 00:23:02.947
  • "well, god doesn't know what it's like
  • 00:23:02.947 --> 00:23:05.683
  • To live in this earth."
  • 00:23:05.683 --> 00:23:07.318
  • Are you going through hardship right now?
  • 00:23:07.318 --> 00:23:09.820
  • Maybe you've been abandoned by friends or even family and you
  • 00:23:09.820 --> 00:23:14.125
  • Say, "god doesn't know what it's like."
  • 00:23:14.125 --> 00:23:15.960
  • He knows exactly what it's like.
  • 00:23:15.960 --> 00:23:18.362
  • Jesus was the loneliest man who ever lived because when he hung
  • 00:23:18.362 --> 00:23:22.333
  • There on the cross and the sin of the world was placed upon him
  • 00:23:22.333 --> 00:23:25.903
  • Who had never sinned in any way, shape,
  • 00:23:25.903 --> 00:23:28.739
  • Or form and--jesus cried out, "my god,
  • 00:23:28.739 --> 00:23:31.809
  • My god, why have you forsaken me," there's never been a
  • 00:23:31.809 --> 00:23:34.779
  • Lonelier man when even the father momentarily turned his
  • 00:23:34.779 --> 00:23:38.215
  • Face away from the son.
  • 00:23:38.215 --> 00:23:40.384
  • So you have a friend in high places.
  • 00:23:40.384 --> 00:23:44.288
  • You have someone that understands what
  • 00:23:44.288 --> 00:23:46.991
  • You're going through right now.
  • 00:23:46.991 --> 00:23:50.227
  • Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and you have seen
  • 00:23:54.365 --> 00:23:58.602
  • Your need for jesus christ.
  • 00:23:58.602 --> 00:24:00.704
  • Jesus christ is the son of god who came
  • 00:24:00.704 --> 00:24:04.074
  • From heaven to this earth.
  • 00:24:04.074 --> 00:24:06.210
  • He was born in a manger.
  • 00:24:06.210 --> 00:24:08.345
  • He died in a cross.
  • 00:24:08.345 --> 00:24:09.980
  • He rose again from the dead. why?
  • 00:24:09.980 --> 00:24:12.082
  • Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
  • 00:24:12.082 --> 00:24:15.486
  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
  • 00:24:15.486 --> 00:24:17.621
  • I don't want to be a religious person.
  • 00:24:17.621 --> 00:24:19.557
  • I don't think you want to be one either.
  • 00:24:19.557 --> 00:24:21.459
  • I'm talking about relationship with god.
  • 00:24:21.459 --> 00:24:25.029
  • Jesus, who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
  • 00:24:25.029 --> 00:24:29.467
  • And he knocks, and he says if you'll hear his voice and open
  • 00:24:29.467 --> 00:24:32.736
  • The door, he will come in.
  • 00:24:32.736 --> 00:24:34.371
  • Question, have you asked jesus christ to come
  • 00:24:34.371 --> 00:24:37.141
  • And live inside of you?
  • 00:24:37.141 --> 00:24:38.742
  • You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
  • 00:24:38.742 --> 00:24:40.778
  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle of the
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  • Night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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  • I'm sure you would.
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  • And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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  • You will know, and if you don't know, maybe he
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  • Has not come in yet.
  • 00:24:54.058 --> 00:24:55.526
  • He's just a prayer away.
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  • All you need to do is say, "jesus,
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  • I want this relationship with you.
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  • I want you to forgive me of my sin.
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  • I want to go to heaven when i die."
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  • Would you like to do that?
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  • Would you like christ to come into your life?
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  • If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me?
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  • You could pray it out loud or you can pray it in the quietness
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  • Of your heart, but this is a prayer where you're asking jesus
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  • Christ to be your savior and lord.
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  • Pray this with me now.
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  • "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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  • But i know that you're the savior who died on the cross for
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  • My sin and rose again from the dead.
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  • Now come into my life.
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  • I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer
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  • And answering this prayer.
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  • In jesus's name, amen."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If so, i want you to know in the authority of scripture that
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  • Christ himself has come to live inside of you,
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  • And i would love to send to you,
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  • At no charge, something called
  • 00:25:56.921 --> 00:25:59.223
  • The "new believer's bible."
  • 00:25:59.223 --> 00:26:01.025
  • It's a very friendly translation of the new testament you'll find
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  • Very understandable, and it's filled with hundreds of notes
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  • That i wrote that will encourage you in this commitment you've
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  • Just made to follow jesus.
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  • Let me send that to you at no charge,
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  • And let me be the first to
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  • Say to you congratulations, and
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  • Welcome to the family of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: hey, greg laurie here, welcome to my podcast.
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  • I have a very special guest, joel rosenberg.
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  • Levi, thanks for being on my podcast.
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  • Michael franzese.
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  • Thank you for making time for me.
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  • Because you deal with some pretty weighty heavy subjects
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  • And i think when you can bring humor in
  • 00:26:47.404 --> 00:26:49.873
  • It actually helps the viewer to take in all that information.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: is it hard to be a man of faith in what you do?
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  • Male: it's not, in fact, it's the only way
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  • I'm allowed and enabled to do this job.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male: hollywood's not the hope of the world,
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  • The local church is the hope of the world,
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  • And i've always felt like it's my job to set a volleyball
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  • That can be spiked at the local level.
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  • Greg: no one is beyond the reach of god.
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  • I mean, if god can reach michael franzese,
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  • Who can god not reach?
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  • ♪♪♪
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