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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Happiness: What Do You Live For? | June 30, 2026
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- Greg laurie: now, when we hear someone say, "for me to
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- Live is christ," we wonder, you know, are these people
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- In touch with reality, really, to live is
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- Christ, and what does it even mean?
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- Some will say, well, you know, some are so heavenly-minded they
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- Are no earthly good, and my counterpoint to that is some are
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- So earthly-minded they are no heavenly good.
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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: i saw an advertisement, and i believe it was a computer
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- Magazine, quite a few years ago, and it's a
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- Picture of a guy shaving in the mirror.
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- And it asked this question, is it an alarm clock or
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- A calling that gets you up in the morning?
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- I thought, well, that's a good question.
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- And they were selling some, who knows what, computer item.
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- But i thought it was a bigger question.
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- Is it an alarm or a calling that gets you up in the morning?
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- I mean, what makes you tick?
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- What do you get fired up about?
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- Everybody is passionate about something.
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- What do you get up for in the morning?
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- I know it doesn't hurt if i smell coffee in the morning.
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- Throw in some bacon and eggs and now we're talking.
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- Come on, the smell of bacon in the morning.
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- For you vegetarians the smell of brussels sprouts and kale or
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- Whatever you enjoy, but i'm talking about more than that.
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- I'm talking about what really gets you moving in life, what
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- Gives your life purpose or a sense of meaning, raising it
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- Above the level of mere existence because, you know, we
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- Don't want our lives to just be some blip on the screen.
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- We don't want to be just another statistic,
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- We want our lives to matter.
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- So my question is, what is your master passion in life?
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- If you were to sum up what you live
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- For in one word, what would it be?
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- Well, some would say, "for me to live is, you know, to just live.
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- My to live is to live."
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- You know, their philosophy would be take it one day at a time.
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- They just sort of exist almost in an animal-like state, just
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- Kind of following impulses and desires and so forth.
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- Hey, they just sort of live for the moment.
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- They live for the next paycheck.
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- They live for the next weekend.
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- They are just sort of existing.
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- Paul talks about people like this.
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- He says their god is their belly.
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- And some people's gods are bigger
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- Than other people's gods, right?
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- But when he said belly he didn't mean their
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- Actual stomach, he meant their appetites.
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- In other words, their god is their appetite.
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- They just live for satisfying the
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- Appetites that they have in life.
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- Man, that is just a really lame way to live.
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- Number two, there are some that would say,
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- "well, for me to live is pleasure."
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- You know, you're just living for pleasure, living for that
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- Experience, living for that rush, living for
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- That buzz, living for that excitement.
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- They might seek it through drinking.
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- They might--they're not happy till, you know,
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- They get that buzz, right?
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- Or some, they're not happy till they're passed out, i suppose,
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- Because they do it every night, or they want that drug high, or
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- They want that adrenaline rush or whatever it is.
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- They live for pleasure.
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- One person said living for pleasure is one
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- Of the least pleasurable things a person can
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- Do, and i think that's really true.
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- Others might say, "well, you know what?
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- I live to get even.
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- I don't get mad, i get even."
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- Their philosophy is not live and let live,
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- Their philosophy is live and let die.
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- "if you get me, i'm going to get you back."
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- And there's--a lot of these people
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- Happen to be driving cars, i think.
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- You know, like, you're at the light and the light turns green.
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- It's not even a second.
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- It's not half a second.
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- It's just like a fraction of a second.
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- Mah, they lay on the horn behind you.
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- They tailgate you the whole time, cut you off.
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- These kind of aggravated people that are basically always in a
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- Perpetual bad mood and they're always at war with someone.
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- They always have their nemesis.
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- They always like to be in a fight.
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- They love to be in a conflict.
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- This--there are people like this that live for these things.
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- Another might say, "well, i--man, i live for possessions.
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- It's to get stuff.
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- And then when i get that stuff i want to get more stuff, and then
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- When i get that other stuff i need to get rid of this old
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- Stuff so i can make room for new stuff."
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- And they're just always collecting items and objects,
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- And it's always that next shiny thing.
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- It might be a shiny car, or a shiny ring, or a
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- Shiny computer, or whatever it is they're
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- Chasing after, but it's a object or a thing.
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- Their philosophy would be he that dies with the most toys
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- Wins, and i would just add a dot, dot, dot.
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- He that dies with the most toys wins...
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- Nothing, because jesus says what does it profit a man if he gains
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- The whole world and loses his own soul.
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- As i've often said, you've never seen
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- A hearse pulling a u-haul trailer.
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- You know, you're going to leave everything
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- Here on this side in this life.
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- So what do you drive--what are you driven by?
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- What do you dream about? what are you passionate about?
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- I think some people are just enduring.
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- They're just waiting for the next thing.
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- Their favorite day of the week is someday.
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- You know, someday their ship will come in, someday their
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- Prince will come, someday they'll get that
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- Promotion, someday they'll build that dream
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- House, or someday they'll retire.
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- I read a stat that said 94% of people who responded to a survey
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- Said they were enduring the present but waiting for
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- Something better to happen, but the problem is life passes by so
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- Quickly and before you know it a good deal of your life may be
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- Behind you instead of before you, and you'll found
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- That--you'll find that you've been living for nothing.
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- So we need to think about this
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- Because then the afterlife comes.
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- So listen to this.
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- Only those who are prepared to die are really ready to live.
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- Now, i've talked about what people live for.
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- Let me tell you what the apostle paul lived for.
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- Philippians 1:21, "for me to live
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- Is christ and to die is gain."
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- And that brings me to point number one.
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- When you live for christ, you will
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- Accept god's will for your life.
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- When you live for christ, which you all should--we all should be
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- Doing, you will accept god's will for your life.
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- See, paul went to rome to preach,
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- But he ended up under house arrest.
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- Now, how is that a good idea?
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- Well, he was reaching an elite group of people
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- That would have not been reached otherwise.
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- So paul understood god had his hand in it.
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- Look at verse 12.
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- "the things that happened to me have turned
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- Out for the furtherance of the gospel."
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- Did it ever occur to you that you are where you
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- Are because god wants you there right now?
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- Maybe in effect you're chained to someone, and by that i mean
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- Maybe you're chained to a non-believer.
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- Maybe it's a non-believing husband, or a non-believing
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- Wife, or kids that don't believe what you believe, or parents
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- That don't believe what you believe, or a argumentative
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- Co-worker that you sit next to in your office space, or some
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- Guy on your construction site that's always giving
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- You a hard time and you're thinking, "why do
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- I have to be here with this person?"
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- Did it ever occur to you that god
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- Wants you there to reach that person?
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- You know, sometimes the people that argue the most are actually
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- Closer to coming to the lord than those that say nothing.
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- I think a lot of times we think if someone is pleasant and nice
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- And we share the gospel we think that's a good thing, and then
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- When someone's argumentative that's a bad thing, but
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- Sometimes it's the very opposite because it's been said when you
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- Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that
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- Barks the loudest is the one that got hit.
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- Try it after church. find some dogs, throw a rock.
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- No, don't do it.
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- Find a pack of cats.
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- But see, you never find a pack of cats.
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- They're very independent creatures.
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- But the idea is the dog that barks
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- A lot is just the one that got hit.
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- So when you share the gospel with someone and one objects and
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- They protest, and they scream, and they yell, it might be
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- Because they're under the conviction of the holy spirit
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- And god's working on their heart.
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- So don't be discouraged, be encouraged.
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- So paul is reaching the praetorian guard.
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- Really quite significant.
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- And god has put you where you are for his purposes.
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- And he says in verse 14, "most of the brethren in the lord have
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- Become confident by my chains and are more
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- Bold to speak the word without fear."
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- You see, examples of evangelism
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- Spark others to be more evangelistic.
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- So they're saying, "wow.
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- If paul's chained up in a--under house arrest and is willing to
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- Share the gospel with the praetorian guard,
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- Certainly we who have freedom right now,
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- Mobility, we should be doing the same."
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- You know, if you've ever been around an evangelistic
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- Christian, it can be quite contagious, and there are
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- Some people, man, they're just always finding
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- Opportunities to share their faith.
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- And you think, "how do they do that?"
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- They're just tuned in, i think, tuned in to the lord, tuned in
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- To opportunities, looking for opportunities even.
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- And you're going to run a person like that, and
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- You think, "well, i think i could do that."
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- Yes you can, as a matter of fact.
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- So paul's example was inspiring other believers as well.
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- Number two, when you live for christ, as we
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- All should, you'll be a person of prayer.
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- Again, when you live for christ, you'll be a person of prayer.
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- Have you ever wondered what to pray for
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- When you pray for fellow believers?
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- Paul actually gives us an answer here.
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- Look at philippians 1, verse 9.
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- "and this i pray," he's saying to the church of philippi, "that
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- Your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all
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- Discernment and that you may approve the things that are
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- Excellent and that you may be sincere and without offense till
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- The day of christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness
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- Which are by jesus christ, to the glory and praise of god."
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- Interesting.
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- So paul's praying that they would grow in both love and
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- Discernment, love and discernment.
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- You know, sometimes it seems to me as
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- Though the two are mutually exclusive.
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- In other words, some people seem to be
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- Very discerning but not very loving.
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- Others are loving, but they're not discerning, and by that i
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- Mean they just accept everything and everyone.
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- "it's all good, man.
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- We all love the lord, you know.
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- Whatever they believe, it doesn't matter."
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- Well, actually it does matter.
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- There is a place for discernment.
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- But look at what paul says here in verse 1--actually
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- Verse 9, that they would grow in love.
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- "this i pray, that your love will grow still more."
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- Love is a mark of a true christian.
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- Don't say to me, "i love jesus, but i don't love the church."
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- You can't love jesus and not love the church.
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- You can't love god, who you can't see, if you're not willing
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- To love your brother or sister who you can see.
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- And so a mark of real faith, of real love is that you'll love
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- Your christian brothers and sisters.
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- Jesus said, "by this shall all men
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- Know you are my disciples," what?
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- If you have what one for another?
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- Love one for another.
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- So we should be loving.
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- Greg: you know, when jesus hung on the cross,
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- Three times he called out to the father, at the
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- Beginning, middle, and end of the crucifixion.
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- His first words from calvary were, "father, forgive
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- Them for they know not what they do."
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- Then as all the sin of the world was placed upon him, he said,
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- "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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- And finally, he said to the father,
- 00:12:20.939 --> 00:12:23.041
- "into your hands i commit my spirit."
- 00:12:23.041 --> 00:12:25.877
- This is a reminder to us that we should call on god at the
- 00:12:25.877 --> 00:12:29.214
- Beginning, middle, and end of our life.
- 00:12:29.214 --> 00:12:31.983
- You know, if you're young and you're watching me right now,
- 00:12:31.983 --> 00:12:34.786
- Remember the best thing you can do is commit your life to jesus.
- 00:12:34.786 --> 00:12:38.056
- I became a christian at the age of 17.
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- That was about 51 years ago, and
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- I've never regretted that decision.
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- The bible says, "remember the creator
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- In the days of your youth."
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- But then in the middle age sometimes we're preoccupied.
- 00:12:51.269 --> 00:12:54.372
- We're getting our family going, we're pursuing our career, and
- 00:12:54.372 --> 00:12:57.976
- We forget about god, but listen, god has not forgotten about you.
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- Keep god at the forefront of your
- 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:03.281
- Life and certainly at the end.
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- When we're at eternity's door and we
- 00:13:05.617 --> 00:13:07.685
- Know we'll see him, call out to him.
- 00:13:07.685 --> 00:13:10.421
- Call out to the lord at the beginning and
- 00:13:10.421 --> 00:13:12.924
- The middle and the end of your life.
- 00:13:12.924 --> 00:13:15.960
- Greg: now, paul tells us how living for christ
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- Affects us in this life and the afterlife.
- 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:23.735
- Look at verse 21, philippians 1 still.
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- "for me to live is christ and to die is gain, but if i live on in
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- The flesh, that will mean fruit for my labor.
- 00:13:31.576 --> 00:13:34.479
- Yet what i shall choose i cannot tell, for i'm hard-pressed
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- Between the two, having the desire to depart and be with
- 00:13:37.482 --> 00:13:40.919
- Christ, which is far better, nevertheless to remain
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- In the flesh is more needful for you.
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- And being confident of this, i know that i will remain and
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- Continue with you all for your progress and joy of faith, that
- 00:13:49.427 --> 00:13:54.032
- Your rejoicing for me may be more abundant in
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- Jesus christ by my coming to you again."
- 00:13:57.368 --> 00:14:01.005
- Look again at verse 21. "for me to live is christ."
- 00:14:01.005 --> 00:14:05.243
- Now, when we hear someone say, "for me to live is christ," we
- 00:14:05.243 --> 00:14:07.579
- Wonder, you know, are these people in touch with reality,
- 00:14:07.579 --> 00:14:11.249
- Really, to live is christ and what does it even mean?
- 00:14:11.249 --> 00:14:15.753
- Some will say, well, you know, some are so heavenly-minded
- 00:14:15.753 --> 00:14:17.989
- They're no earthly good, and my counterpoint to that is some are
- 00:14:17.989 --> 00:14:21.759
- So earthly-minded they're no heavenly good.
- 00:14:21.759 --> 00:14:24.762
- And i think when you're really heavenly-minded,
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- When you're really living for christ,
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- You will be of the greatest earthly good.
- 00:14:28.900 --> 00:14:32.337
- C.s. lewis said, quote, "the christians who did
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- The most for their present world were precisely those
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- Who thought most about the next world," end quote.
- 00:14:38.810 --> 00:14:42.780
- And i think that's true.
- 00:14:42.780 --> 00:14:44.349
- You see, real spirituality is practical,
- 00:14:44.349 --> 00:14:48.419
- And paul was a balanced christian.
- 00:14:48.419 --> 00:14:50.421
- And the most godly men and women i've had
- 00:14:50.421 --> 00:14:52.357
- The privilege of meeting over the last 40 plus years
- 00:14:52.357 --> 00:14:55.693
- Have always been very down to earth.
- 00:14:55.693 --> 00:14:58.897
- You know, not holier-than-thou kind of people looking down on
- 00:14:58.897 --> 00:15:03.134
- You, but very genuine people, often fun-loving people, people
- 00:15:03.134 --> 00:15:10.208
- With a self-deprecating sense of humor, not that spacey,
- 00:15:10.208 --> 00:15:14.178
- Wide-eyed, one clown short of a circus look.
- 00:15:14.178 --> 00:15:18.750
- You know what i'm talking about?
- 00:15:18.750 --> 00:15:20.952
- Heavenly-minded people are gracious, they're approachable,
- 00:15:20.952 --> 00:15:24.656
- They're assessable, and religious people are just weird.
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- I so don't want to be a religious person.
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- I--you know, when they get this religious vibe and they talk
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- Religiously and they look at you weird
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- Religiously, it's like, "just stop."
- 00:15:38.136 --> 00:15:40.071
- And here's my suggestion.
- 00:15:40.071 --> 00:15:41.472
- They were always weird to start with, okay?
- 00:15:41.472 --> 00:15:45.310
- Their faith in christ did not make them weird.
- 00:15:45.310 --> 00:15:47.278
- They were weird, and now they just talk
- 00:15:47.278 --> 00:15:49.314
- About jesus and they're still weird.
- 00:15:49.314 --> 00:15:52.283
- Now, maybe they're saved weird, i don't
- 00:15:52.283 --> 00:15:53.952
- Know, but they're weird, okay?
- 00:15:53.952 --> 00:15:55.520
- It's all i know.
- 00:15:55.520 --> 00:15:57.322
- Your faith in christ will not make you that person.
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- If you have faith in christ and know what it means to live for
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- Christ, you'll have your feet on the ground but your heart and
- 00:16:03.294 --> 00:16:06.998
- Your thoughts will be in heaven, and i think paul
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- Is an example of this in so many ways.
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- I mean, there's no greater example
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- Of this than jesus himself.
- 00:16:15.974 --> 00:16:18.676
- You know, jesus was a practical man.
- 00:16:18.676 --> 00:16:21.479
- He was god in human form walking among us,
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- But jesus lived a real life on planet earth.
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- He was a real, living human being,
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- But he was god walking among us.
- 00:16:30.788 --> 00:16:33.558
- So paul is saying to live is christ, and that was pretty much
- 00:16:33.558 --> 00:16:37.729
- Not just paul's motto but, i think, the motto of
- 00:16:37.729 --> 00:16:40.431
- Pretty much everyone in the early church.
- 00:16:40.431 --> 00:16:43.668
- You know, if you look at the church of the
- 00:16:43.668 --> 00:16:45.203
- 1st century, they changed the world.
- 00:16:45.203 --> 00:16:47.805
- They changed the world.
- 00:16:47.805 --> 00:16:49.307
- They turned the world upside down,
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- And imagine it, they did it without media.
- 00:16:51.009 --> 00:16:55.146
- You know, thomas didn't have a twitter account, peter didn't
- 00:16:55.146 --> 00:16:58.549
- Have an instagram page, paul didn't have a facebook page, but
- 00:16:58.549 --> 00:17:02.587
- They had a lot of followers and a lot of friends, and they
- 00:17:02.587 --> 00:17:06.791
- Changed the world that was there at the time,
- 00:17:06.791 --> 00:17:10.328
- The world that was under the rule of rome.
- 00:17:10.328 --> 00:17:14.365
- And it's amazing to think about how they did it.
- 00:17:14.365 --> 00:17:17.335
- The first christians did not out-argue
- 00:17:17.335 --> 00:17:20.104
- The pagans, they outlived them.
- 00:17:20.104 --> 00:17:22.907
- They didn't conquer paganism and dead
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- Judaism by reacting blow by blow.
- 00:17:25.043 --> 00:17:28.513
- Instead, the christians of the 1st century outthought,
- 00:17:28.513 --> 00:17:31.916
- Outprayed, and outlived the non-believers.
- 00:17:31.916 --> 00:17:36.020
- Their weapons were positive, not negative.
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- They didn't stage protests, and they didn't hold boycotts.
- 00:17:39.424 --> 00:17:42.727
- Have you ever noticed that?
- 00:17:42.727 --> 00:17:44.429
- They didn't have a campaign to unseat the emperor.
- 00:17:44.429 --> 00:17:47.265
- They would have died if they did that.
- 00:17:47.265 --> 00:17:49.333
- It said they prayed and preached and proclaimed the message of
- 00:17:49.333 --> 00:17:52.570
- The death of christ on the cross and his resurrection from the
- 00:17:52.570 --> 00:17:56.474
- Dead, and they backed up that message with
- 00:17:56.474 --> 00:17:59.277
- Actions to match and they changed the planet.
- 00:17:59.277 --> 00:18:03.548
- They were out there loving, and giving, and healing, and doing
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- All the things god called them to do.
- 00:18:06.784 --> 00:18:08.753
- So the slogan of the first century church,
- 00:18:08.753 --> 00:18:11.622
- The church that changed the world, was to live as christ
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- And to die is gain.
- 00:18:14.725 --> 00:18:16.694
- What would the slogan of the 21st century church be?
- 00:18:16.694 --> 00:18:20.264
- What about my needs, man?
- 00:18:20.264 --> 00:18:22.567
- Something like that, maybe.
- 00:18:22.567 --> 00:18:24.168
- You know, i go church shopping and i'm gonna
- 00:18:24.168 --> 00:18:26.104
- Try to find a church that meets all of my needs
- 00:18:26.104 --> 00:18:28.539
- Or maybe i go to multiple churches.
- 00:18:28.539 --> 00:18:31.109
- Well, listen, if we train people to be consumers
- 00:18:31.109 --> 00:18:34.045
- Instead of communers,
- 00:18:34.045 --> 00:18:36.013
- We'll end up with customers instead of disciples.
- 00:18:36.013 --> 00:18:40.918
- So this is the church that changed the world, and i pray
- 00:18:40.918 --> 00:18:44.088
- That we could be the church that changes our world as well.
- 00:18:44.088 --> 00:18:48.893
- Paul lived for christ, but he was human.
- 00:18:48.893 --> 00:18:52.163
- He was not perfect.
- 00:18:52.163 --> 00:18:53.498
- Did you know the apostle paul was not perfect?
- 00:18:53.498 --> 00:18:55.399
- He'd get irritated at times.
- 00:18:55.399 --> 00:18:58.669
- You know, when he was being mistreated by the high priest's
- 00:18:58.669 --> 00:19:03.307
- Servant and actually guy struck him, he shot back, "god'll
- 00:19:03.307 --> 00:19:07.178
- Smite you, you whitewashed wall."
- 00:19:07.178 --> 00:19:09.247
- Guy's like, "what'd you say?"
- 00:19:09.247 --> 00:19:10.581
- "ah, didn't know you're the high priest servant."
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- He got ticked off.
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- Who likes to get hit in the face?
- 00:19:14.185 --> 00:19:16.187
- Not the apostle paul.
- 00:19:16.187 --> 00:19:17.688
- When it was revealed to paul that there were some guys that
- 00:19:17.688 --> 00:19:20.525
- Wanted to kill him, paul didn't walk out into
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- The town square and say, "here i am, kill me," no.
- 00:19:23.060 --> 00:19:26.564
- He was lowered over the side of the wall in a basket, why?
- 00:19:26.564 --> 00:19:30.601
- 'cause paul wanted to live to see tomorrow.
- 00:19:30.601 --> 00:19:34.172
- You know, a christian doesn't have a death wish.
- 00:19:34.172 --> 00:19:37.275
- We don't walk around saying, "man, i hope i die today."
- 00:19:37.275 --> 00:19:41.212
- But here's what we do say, to live
- 00:19:41.212 --> 00:19:42.547
- Is christ and to die is gain.
- 00:19:42.547 --> 00:19:44.815
- I want to live today, and i want to live tomorrow, and i want to
- 00:19:44.815 --> 00:19:48.719
- Live as many days as god has given me to live.
- 00:19:48.719 --> 00:19:52.256
- And when that day comes when i'm called to heaven,
- 00:19:52.256 --> 00:19:54.759
- Then that day will come, but i'm going to do
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- Everything i can to live in this day.
- 00:19:57.361 --> 00:19:59.564
- So paul was a practical guy, and he cared about the church.
- 00:19:59.564 --> 00:20:03.601
- Look at verse 23.
- 00:20:03.601 --> 00:20:04.936
- "i am hard-pressed between the two, having the desire to depart
- 00:20:04.936 --> 00:20:08.105
- And be with christ, which is far better, but it's important for
- 00:20:08.105 --> 00:20:11.375
- Me to remain in the flesh for you."
- 00:20:11.375 --> 00:20:13.778
- Yeah, he wanted to help them, but notice what he says.
- 00:20:13.778 --> 00:20:18.950
- He says having the desire to depart
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- With christ, which is far better.
- 00:20:21.953 --> 00:20:24.355
- Listen to this.
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- Death for a christian is something that's going to happen
- 00:20:26.824 --> 00:20:31.963
- As it will happen for every person, but paul understood that
- 00:20:31.963 --> 00:20:35.466
- When death came, and it did come for him, it was a conscious
- 00:20:35.466 --> 00:20:40.204
- Existence, not an unconscious oblivion.
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- Bringing me to point number three.
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- When you live for christ, you're not afraid to die.
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- When you live for christ, you're not afraid to die.
- 00:20:51.716 --> 00:20:54.285
- Again, only the person who has said to live is
- 00:20:54.285 --> 00:20:57.054
- Christ, then can then say to die is gain.
- 00:20:57.054 --> 00:21:02.393
- Heaven's better because it's immediate.
- 00:21:02.393 --> 00:21:04.929
- Heaven's better because it's immediate.
- 00:21:04.996 --> 00:21:06.664
- Verse 23, "i'll depart and be with christ."
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- That's very important 'cause often people
- 00:21:09.734 --> 00:21:11.369
- Says, "what happens when we die?"
- 00:21:11.369 --> 00:21:12.937
- You go straight to heaven. simple answer.
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- The moment you take your last breath on earth,
- 00:21:16.140 --> 00:21:18.009
- You take your first breath in heaven.
- 00:21:18.009 --> 00:21:19.710
- You don't go to a holding tank.
- 00:21:19.710 --> 00:21:21.245
- He just--he did not say, "i'll depart and just kind of hang out
- 00:21:21.245 --> 00:21:24.782
- For, you know, a few hundred years, or i'll depart and go to
- 00:21:24.782 --> 00:21:29.053
- Purgatory, or i'll depart and go to a soul sleep," no.
- 00:21:29.053 --> 00:21:33.791
- "i'll depart and be with christ."
- 00:21:33.791 --> 00:21:36.527
- You go right into the presence of jesus christ.
- 00:21:36.527 --> 00:21:40.898
- Many verses affirm this.
- 00:21:40.898 --> 00:21:42.266
- 2 corinthians 5:8 says, "we're confident, and i
- 00:21:42.266 --> 00:21:45.202
- Say we're rather willing to be absent from the body
- 00:21:45.202 --> 00:21:48.739
- And to be present with the lord."
- 00:21:48.739 --> 00:21:50.408
- Thirdly, heaven is better than earth because all my questions
- 00:21:50.408 --> 00:21:54.312
- Will be answered, all my questions will be answered.
- 00:21:54.312 --> 00:21:59.183
- We all have questions in life.
- 00:21:59.183 --> 00:22:01.686
- I really wonder if when i get to heaven i'll have my list.
- 00:22:01.686 --> 00:22:04.455
- "lord, it's good to be here, but i have this list."
- 00:22:04.455 --> 00:22:08.025
- I kind of think once i see him i'll just say, "never mind.
- 00:22:08.025 --> 00:22:12.863
- It's all good, very good."
- 00:22:12.863 --> 00:22:16.067
- But we'll know all things in that day.
- 00:22:16.067 --> 00:22:18.969
- 1 corinthians 13:12 says, "right now we see him perfectly as in a
- 00:22:18.969 --> 00:22:22.907
- Poor mirror, but then we'll see everything with perfect clarity.
- 00:22:22.907 --> 00:22:26.944
- All that i know now is partial and incomplete, but then i will
- 00:22:26.944 --> 00:22:30.448
- Know everything completely just as god knows me now."
- 00:22:30.448 --> 00:22:33.918
- And i believe that when i get to heaven, i'll
- 00:22:33.918 --> 00:22:36.787
- Spend all eternity learning and learning.
- 00:22:36.787 --> 00:22:39.090
- I don't think it's like god dumps
- 00:22:39.090 --> 00:22:40.725
- All this knowledge into my brain.
- 00:22:40.725 --> 00:22:42.827
- I'd be like some weird bobblehead.
- 00:22:42.827 --> 00:22:44.662
- You know, just huge head, little body walking around, no.
- 00:22:44.662 --> 00:22:47.531
- I think you're learning and learning and growing and
- 00:22:47.531 --> 00:22:50.368
- Discovering all through heaven, and then ultimately
- 00:22:50.368 --> 00:22:53.504
- When heaven comes down to earth again.
- 00:22:53.504 --> 00:22:56.440
- This is the hope of the christian
- 00:22:56.440 --> 00:22:58.309
- And only the christian.
- 00:22:58.309 --> 00:23:00.211
- And lastly, heaven is better because i'll
- 00:23:00.211 --> 00:23:02.913
- Be with christ, be with christ, i'll be with him.
- 00:23:02.913 --> 00:23:07.218
- Yes, you'll be reunited with loved ones that have preceded
- 00:23:07.218 --> 00:23:09.820
- You, yes, all of your questions will be answered, yes, you'll
- 00:23:09.820 --> 00:23:13.858
- Trade in your tent for a mansion, yes, it'll be so much
- 00:23:13.858 --> 00:23:17.962
- Better on every level, but yes, you will be with christ,
- 00:23:17.962 --> 00:23:22.233
- And that's what makes heaven heaven.
- 00:23:22.233 --> 00:23:24.168
- So wrapping this up, what do you live for?
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- If you'd say, "for me to live is money," then for you
- 00:23:28.506 --> 00:23:31.575
- One day to die is to leave it all behind.
- 00:23:31.575 --> 00:23:35.746
- If you'd say, "for me to live is fame," then one day for you to
- 00:23:35.746 --> 00:23:38.816
- Die is going to be that you'll be forgotten.
- 00:23:38.816 --> 00:23:42.453
- If you'd say, "to me to live is power," then i'm telling you one
- 00:23:42.453 --> 00:23:45.556
- Day to die will be for you to lose it all.
- 00:23:45.556 --> 00:23:48.092
- But if you'd say to live is christ,
- 00:23:48.092 --> 00:23:50.761
- Then you can also say to die is gain.
- 00:23:50.761 --> 00:23:55.499
- Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and
- 00:23:59.403 --> 00:24:02.573
- You have seen your need for jesus christ.
- 00:24:02.573 --> 00:24:06.076
- Jesus christ is the son of god who
- 00:24:06.076 --> 00:24:09.046
- Came from heaven to this earth.
- 00:24:09.046 --> 00:24:11.282
- He was born in a manger.
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- He died in a cross.
- 00:24:13.417 --> 00:24:14.985
- He rose again from the dead. why?
- 00:24:14.985 --> 00:24:17.087
- Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
- 00:24:17.087 --> 00:24:20.624
- Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
- 00:24:20.624 --> 00:24:22.860
- I don't want to be a religious person.
- 00:24:22.860 --> 00:24:24.662
- I don't think you want to be one either.
- 00:24:24.662 --> 00:24:26.597
- I'm talking about relationship with god.
- 00:24:26.597 --> 00:24:30.267
- Jesus, who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
- 00:24:30.267 --> 00:24:34.638
- And he knocks, and he says if you'll hear his
- 00:24:34.638 --> 00:24:36.774
- Voice and open the door he will come in.
- 00:24:36.774 --> 00:24:39.577
- Question, have you asked jesus christ
- 00:24:39.577 --> 00:24:41.912
- To come and live inside of you?
- 00:24:41.912 --> 00:24:43.914
- You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
- 00:24:43.914 --> 00:24:46.050
- 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
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- To live inside of you, you will know, and if you don't
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- Know, maybe he has not come in yet.
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- He is 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, but i know that you're
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- The savior who died on the cross for my sin
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- 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 and
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- 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 at no charge
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- Something called the "new believer's bible."
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- 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
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- Commitment you've just made to follow jesus.
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- Let me send that to you at no charge, and let me
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- Be the first to say to you congratulations
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- And welcome to the family of god.
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- Greg: greg laurie here.
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- You know, at harvest ministries, we're committing to reaching
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- Unexpected people in unexpected places
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- With an unexpected message.
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- And thanks to your financial support,
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- We've been able to touch people all over the world with the hope
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- Of jesus christ.
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- Your gifts today not only help us reach millions across the
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- Country through this television program,
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- They also help us to bring hope to people and their biggest
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- Need, whether through our evangelistic events or our
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- Relief efforts.
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- Together, we've been able to minister to so many people
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- Devastated by the fires in lahaina, on the island of maui.
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- And also, your support has helped us partner to bring
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- Medical help in the ongoing conflict in israel.
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- So i'm asking you today to continue to support this
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- Ministry so we can do everything possible to fulfill
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- The great commission.
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- Let's do this together.
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- And let me say in advance, thank you, and god bless you.
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