Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Harvest Crusade 2024: Recap and Testimonies

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Harvest Crusade 2024: Recap and Testimonies | July 12, 2026

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Greg laurie: if you become a christian,
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You will discover the meaning of life
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Because everyone gets around to asking,
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"why am i here on this earth?
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Why do i exist?
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What is the meaning of my life?"
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And when you put your faith in christ, you'll
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Find the answer to all those questions
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Because god created you to know him.
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♪♪♪
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Female: in a world where things are really dark
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And really scary, it's easy to think
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That wrong is right and right is wrong,
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And you can't even tell what's going
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On anymore, and it feels like just depression
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And anxiety has completely taken a hold.
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Female: especially this new generation.
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They are so lost.
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Like, all over social media, you can see it.
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Male: i think the world is crying out for help,
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And it's a beautiful thing to have this and reach
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Out to those people.
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Female: i know a lot of people,
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I think they want to come to christ.
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They just don't know how.
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It's so easy to get lost in the world.
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We really need jesus.
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Male: i truly believe there's a sense of revival
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That is starting, and events like
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This, it's kind of a testimony
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To, like, that actually god is moving.
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Greg: when i was a young christian back
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In the days of the jesus movement, we were sitting
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Down at the beach there at big corona.
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There's some christians singing, and when i
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Was done speaking, they said, "pastor,
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Could you baptize us?"
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And i said, "no, i'm not a pastor.
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I'm just here talking with these other believers,"
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And i looked up and a little crowd
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Had gathered up on the rocks.
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As clear as day, the holy spirit said to me,
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"preach the gospel."
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And so i found myself preaching
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To these people, and some people came down
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And i baptized them as well.
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And so the lord was sort of giving
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Me a glimpse into the future.
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When you go in the water, it's like you're
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Saying goodbye to the old life.
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You're burying the old you.
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So this is the happiest funeral service
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You're ever going to attend.
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♪♪♪
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Female: i feel like there's lots of division
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In our nation right now and so we definitely
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Need lots of unity and coming together,
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Which is i think exactly what this event does.
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Female: i mean, seeing everybody
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Here today gives me hope, you know, there's
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So many people.
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I honestly didn't think it was gonna be this crowded,
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So seeing this many people gives me hope.
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Female: there's a lot of youth
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That are on fire and there's a lot of people
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Who are yearning and want to be, so i mean,
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We're here and i know there's
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Other people out there too.
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They're not alone.
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Jonathan laurie: it is my honor to welcome you
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To our 35th annual harvest crusade.
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Come on, who would have thought 35 years
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Later, here we are.
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Cathe laurie: when i look at what's happening
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In the world today, i get excited
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Because the scriptures say, "when the enemy comes
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In like a flood, the spirit of the lord
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Will raise up a standard against him."
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Art reyes: your word tells us, lord,
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That you came to seek and save the lost.
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Your word says that who the son sets free
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Is free indeed.
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And so we pray, lord, that you would bless,
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That you would save, lord, and that you would set free.
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Greg: we have packed angel stadium to capacity.
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We have people outside who weren't able to get
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In tonight, so we're very excited
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To have all of you here tonight,
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But i want to talk to you as an individual.
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Some of you are wracked with guilt.
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You wake up in the middle of the night,
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Thinking about the things that you've done,
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The people you've hurt, the devastation
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You've caused, but god can forgive
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You of your sin and remove your guilt.
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The bible says if we will confess our sin,
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He's faithful and just to forgive us our sin
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And cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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And if you become a christian,
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And this is the most important one of all, you
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Will know that you will go to heaven one day.
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That's the most important.
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What matters more?
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Every one of us is going to enter into the afterlife.
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The statistics on death are really impressive.
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One out of every one persons will die.
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And so the question is, where are you going
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To spend the afterlife?
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Well, if you put your faith in christ, you can know
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For sure that you will go to heaven when you die.
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Jesus said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life,
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And no man comes to the father but by me."
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Your life will go from hopelessness to hope,
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From black and white to color, when christ comes
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In your life.
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And let me tell you how i became a christian.
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It was the last thing on my mind, age 17,
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1970, going the wrong way in life.
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I was raised in an alcoholic home.
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My mother was married and divorced seven times,
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Had a lot of boyfriends.
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She was living the partying, drinking lifestyle.
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She drank to excess every night, basically passed out.
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I had to grow up fast.
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I had to take care of her.
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In many ways i was more the parent
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In the relationship.
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And i didn't want to follow in her footsteps.
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Before i knew it, i was in high school.
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I was partying with all my friends,
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Drinking, getting drunk, and i'm thinking,
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"i don't even enjoy this.
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Why am i even doing it?"
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But then the whole drug culture came along
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And we were told drugs would make us more aware.
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And there was some truth to that because as i began
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To experiment with drugs, i became more
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Aware of how empty i was inside, so it
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Was almost like a process of elimination.
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I didn't want to live the
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Lifestyle of my mother and the other adults i knew.
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I didn't want to live this druggie
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Lifestyle that i found myself in.
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Where was the answer?
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Well, i transferred from one high school
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To another because on the school i
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Was transferring to, they had a strong
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Drug culture, meaning that the people
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In charge kind of looked the other way.
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And so i went there to change,
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But instead of finding a drug culture,
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I found a jesus culture.
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I--on my first day at school,
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Some of my friends said, "greg, watch out,
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We have a lot of jesus freaks in this campus,"
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And i said, "the last thing greg laurie
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Will ever do is become a jesus freak."
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Famous last words.
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And of course, i heard the gospel
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For the first time in a way that i understood,
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And i prayed what is sometimes called
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The sinner's prayer.
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Some people say, "well, there's no sinner's prayer
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In the bible."
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Well, there actually is a sinner's prayer
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In the bible, and it's in a story
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That jesus told us found in luke chapter 18.
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Jesus says two men went into the temple to pray.
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One was a pharisee, that would be
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A religious leader.
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The other was a despised tax collector.
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The pharisee stood by himself and he
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Prayed this: "god, i thank you i'm
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Not like other people: cheaters, sinners, adulterers.
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I'm certainly not like this tax collector over here.
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I fast twice a week.
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I give a tenth of my income."
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And the tax collector stood at a distance.
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He dared not even lift his eyes to heaven
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As he prayed.
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Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying,
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"oh god, be merciful to me, a sinner."
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Now jesus offers this conclusion:
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"i tell you, that sinner, not the pharisee,
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Returned home justified before god,
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For those that exalt themself will be humbled,
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And those that humble themselves will be exalted."
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We'll stop there.
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So god sees things differently than we see.
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We look at the outside.
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God looks on the inside.
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The bible says that people judge
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By outward appearance, but the lord looks
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On thoughts and intentions, and we're such a culture
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That's absorbed with the way that we look.
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I mean, every time i turn around i'm reading
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A new article about someone who dies taking a selfie, right?
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They're at the edge of a cliff or standing
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On the railroad track, "i want to get this
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Selfie, yeah."
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It's crazy.
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And when someone takes a picture
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And you're in the group of people,
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You always want to see it first.
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You say, "don't post that.
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I don't like the way i look.
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I look too fat," right?
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We put so much emphasis on the way that we look.
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$16 billion a year is spent on cosmetic surgery in america.
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And that's newport beach alone.
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It's really--i'm just kidding.
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The mayor of newport beach is here.
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He's probably not happy with me.
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But this is funny.
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A study showed that babies as young
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As one day old were drawn to more attractive faces,
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So you say, "what?"
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Yeah, a baby wants to look at an attractive face.
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So if you wanna find out if you're attractive
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Or not, look at a baby.
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If they turn away, you are unattractive.
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If they smile, maybe you're okay, right?
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Things are not always as they appear.
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You know, people take their dogs
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With them everywhere, you probably noticed that,
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And they have all these doodles now.
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There are all these versions
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Of poodles and other breeds that are mixed together
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And i read about a person who actually was
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Ordering what was described as a dog of his dreams.
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It was a specialized poodle.
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So he ordered two of them and it turns out
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They looked a little different to him.
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He took them to his vet.
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They actually weren't poodles at all.
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They were actually giant rodents
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That had been put on steroids, okay?
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So not good, kind of gross too, though i would
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Like to see one of these rodents
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On steroids.
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God sees things differently than we do.
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Two men are praying.
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One appears to be devout and religious.
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The other appears to be wicked and sinful,
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But actually things are not as they always appear.
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Greg: hey, have you ever felt
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Like you're the only person following jesus christ
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In your family, in your workplace,
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In your neighborhood, or among your friends?
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Well, if so, then you probably know how
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Elijah the prophet felt.
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He stood up in mount carmel in a big contest between him
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And the prophets of baal.
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They had 850 false prophets on their side and just elijah
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On the lord's side, but that was no problem
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Because one with god is a majority.
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You actually aren't the only one doing
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What you're doing, but clearly christians
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Are a minority, but a little bit of salt
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Makes a difference, doesn't it?
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Jesus said, "you're the salt of the earth."
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And so as we go out there and we live our lives
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For christ and we make our stand for him
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And speak up for him, it makes all the difference
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In the world.
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Not only does a little salt make
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A difference, but a little light
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Goes a long way.
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So, i encourage you to be the light
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In the place where you are at, to be the salt
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In your world and make your stand
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For jesus christ, just like elijah did.
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Greg: my son jonathan has an older brother,
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Had an older brother.
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Still has one.
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His name is christopher.
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He's been in heaven now for 16 years.
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And he took jonathan to a church,
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A church of recovering addicts, and jonathan
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Was a clean-cut kid.
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Jonathan dressed well.
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He put on a clean shirt, and he goes to this church,
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And he was kind of shocked by the people
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That were attending.
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The guy that greeted them in the front had a patch
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Over his eye and a skull and a
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Crossbones tattooed on his head, right?
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And so this is kind of a rough bunch
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And jonathan's kind of judging them.
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Even though he's not walking with god
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At this point in his life like his brother
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Christopher was, he's kind of judging these guys
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Because of the way they looked on the outside,
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Because they looked like the way they used
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To look, like you could tell where they
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Had come from.
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But then as the service went on and he saw
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These people worshiping god, it dawned on him,
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"they're the ones that are pleasing to god;
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Not me."
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And sometimes we think, "oh, i'm a good person
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And i go to church or i read my bible
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And i do these certain things.
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I've been baptized."
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Those are all great things, and every christian
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Should do them, but sometimes we can be good
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On the outside and not be right on the inside.
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We think by living a good life we
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Will find ourselves getting to heaven,
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But you're not going to get to heaven
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By living a good life at all.
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If you wanted to sum up all the religions
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Of the world, you could do it in one word: do.
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Do this and maybe you'll get to heaven.
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Do that and maybe you'll reach nirvana.
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Do this other thing and maybe god will
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Accept you, but christianity
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Can be summed up in one single word: done.
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Salvation is done.
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It's given to you as a gift from god,
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Purchased by jesus christ on the cross
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When he bore the sin of the world
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And he said, "it is finished."
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Let me tell you something that might surprise you.
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There's gonna be some bad people in heaven
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And there's gonna be some good people in hell.
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I know i lost some people just then, like,
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"what are you even talking about?
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I thought heaven was for good people."
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No, heaven is not for good people.
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Heaven is for forgiven people, you see,
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Forgiven people.
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There could be a good person in hell, meaning
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That they lived a good life.
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They thought they were moral,
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But they fell short of god's standards.
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But there could be a bad person that makes it
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Into heaven because if they will admit their sin
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And ask christ to forgive them, he will.
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Listen, no matter what sins you
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Have committed, god will forgive you tonight
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If you'll admit those sins and turn your back on them
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And start to follow jesus christ.
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It's true.
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Think of that man we call the thief on the cross.
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Remember jesus was crucified between two criminals.
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Actually, the crimes he committed were
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Probably far worse than stealing.
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He probably was a murderer because rome would
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Not crucify a thief, but they would
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Certainly crucify an insurrectionist,
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So maybe he rebelled against rome.
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I don't know what he did exactly,
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But he was being crucified for it.
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And as jesus is hung on the cross,
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The whole crowd begins to mock him, saying,
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"if he's really the son of god,
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Let him save himself."
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And that thief joined in with the other thief
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And said the same thing to jesus, and then
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Jesus gave a statement that changed everything.
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The first words of jesus from the cross were,
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"father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
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And the hardened heart of that criminal
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Melted, and he realized that jesus was
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The very son of god, and he turned to jesus and said,
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"lord, remember me when you come
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Into your kingdom," and jesus said, "truly,
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Truly, i say to you, today you will be with me
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In paradise."
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A bad person got into heaven.
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You see how it works?
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And god can do that for you because when you
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Become a christian, you become a different person
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On the inside.
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The bible says: "if any man be in christ,
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He is an altogether different kind of person.
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Old things pass away.
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Behold, everything becomes fresh and new."
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I love it when it rains.
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Everything is clean.
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Everyone gets a free car wash.
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You might even see a beautiful rainbow,
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And that's what happens when you put your faith
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In christ.
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So i mentioned the sinner's prayer.
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So here's this guy that says, "god,
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Be merciful to me, a sinner."
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Here's the prayer i lead people in.
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I don't always pray it exactly the same way,
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But this is the gist of the prayer,
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And this is the prayer that i will lead you
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In if you choose to pray it with me.
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It starts with these words: "god,
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I know that i'm a sinner."
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"god, i know that i'm a sinner."
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That's what this man said.
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He said, "god, be merciful to me,
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A sinner," and a better
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Translation of that would be, "god, be merciful to me,
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The sinner."
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So this guy was a mega sinner, a sinner on steroids,
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If you will.
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And he knew it, and see, god has given us
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The ten commandments.
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And some people say, "well, i live
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By the ten commandments.
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That's all the religion i need."
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Really?
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What are the ten commandments?
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"uh--" they don't know.
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Well, let me tell you some of them.
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You shall not have any other gods before him.
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You shall not take the name of the lord in vain.
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You shall not lie.
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You shall not steal.
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You shall not commit adultery.
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Every one of us have broken
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Those commandments, and the bible says
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If you offend in one point of the law,
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You're guilty of all of it.
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So you're a sinner.
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You have to take responsibility for your sin.
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Another definition of the word "sin" means
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To miss a mark.
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Think of an archery contest, and the objective is
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To get your arrow into the bullseye
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Or at least hit the target, so one person may
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Fire ten arrows and all ten of them
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Hit the target, but none of them
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Hit the bull's eye.
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Then i may fire ten arrows and none of them hit the target.
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I hit a cow over here.
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I hit a tree over there.
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See, we both missed the mark and maybe i missed
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The mark more than you missed the mark,
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But it doesn't matter because if you fall
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Short of god's standards, you have sinned.
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Jesus said, "be perfect as my father in heaven
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Is perfect."
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Someone says, "well, what, are you perfect?"
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No, that's where jesus comes in.
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That's why i need jesus.
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I have to admit my sin.
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Every sinner needs a savior.
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Broken people need healing, captives need freedom,
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Hopeless people need hope, and the guilty need forgiveness.
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We need a savior.
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So when i lead people in a sinner's prayer,
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I say, pray this after me, "god, i know
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That i'm a sinner and i'm sorry for my sin.
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And i know that you are the savior."
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A sinner needs a savior.
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And jesus is the savior of the world.
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Jesus will save you from your sin tonight.
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The bible says: "whoever will call
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Upon the name of the lord will be saved,"
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And i love the word "saved."
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We save it for dramatic situations
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Like maybe when a firefighter rushes
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Into a burning building and brings someone out,
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Maybe a child, and we say, "the firefighter
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Saved the life of the child,"
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And certainly that is the appropriate word
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To use.
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We all know that there was an assassination attempt
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On president trump and, miraculously, he
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Was only wounded.
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He himself said this.
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He himself said: "it was god himself
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Who stopped the unthinkable from happening,"
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And then he said, "i stand here today
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Because of the grace of god because i shouldn't be here."
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He knows that god saved him.
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By the way, if president biden
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Had been shot, i would be saying
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The same thing about him because we don't want
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To see violence against people running
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For office in our country.
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We decide with ballots, not bullets, in america.
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But i am thankful god spared president
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Trump's life.
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But another man died that day, as you know.
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He's a firefighter.
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His name was corey comperatore and,
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As the bullets began to fly, he threw his body
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Over the family that was with him,
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His daughters and his wife, and he was shot and killed.
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He took the bullet for them, he saved them.
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And jesus took the bullet for you at the cross
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When he died for the sins of the world.
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Jesus came to pay a debt he did not owe
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Because we owed a debt we could not pay.
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A sinner, that's you, that's me, needs a savior,
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That's jesus.
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And what does he save us from?
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He saves us from hell.
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Female: i was in a really dark place,
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Didn't know who i was, just looking to figure out
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Who i was.
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I heard about the harvest festival
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Because of my parents, and i'm like, "can we go?"
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Female: six months ago i lost my brother, tragically.
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Two days later after my brother,
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My dad passed away, so it's trying
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To build an understanding of why.
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Greg: broken people need healing,
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Captives need freedom,
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Hopeless people need hope, and the guilty need forgiveness.
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We need a savior.
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Female: dealing a lot with suicidal thoughts
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And thinking that i'm not enough,
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But the one person who always stuck by me was god,
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Brought me out of my darkness, and
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I know he could do the same for other people,
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And that's what i love to see.
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Male: today i got baptized.
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I was at the harvest festival and i
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Feel refreshed and i feel like a new start
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Has begun in my life.
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Female: when i went under the water,
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There was a moment of, like, time standing still.
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I felt like the sins that i've done
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Kind of just washed away.
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Male: greg laurie talked about the biggest
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Decision we can make, you know, before our time is up
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On this planet, and i wanna spend eternity
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In heaven, i wanna live for jesus.
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Greg: jesus says, "come to me, all ye
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That labor and are heavy laden,
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And i will give you rest."
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Just come to him, and you watch what god will do.
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Female: overwhelmed, i guess would be
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The word i would probably use.
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Female: i just felt like i needed to get right
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With god.
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Female: i just, i feel i need to get closer
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To god, and he really-- i really felt it tonight.
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Female: i look forward to just going
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To church tomorrow and really fulfilling this
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With god, and i just, i'm really excited
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To live my life under jesus.
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Greg: this is a powerful response tonight.
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This is a holy moment.
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So many people, so many needs, sinners who need a savior
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And a savior who is ready to forgive.
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Female: i'm from cheyenne, north dakota,
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And i came out here for the harvest crusade.
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I need to fill a void that i've had inside
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My heart for so long, and it was just filled,
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And i wish i would have done it a long time ago.
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Female: i'm just feeling amazing.
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Like, i just feel so peaceful and like,
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I just, it's all, like, my sin is gone
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And i'm with him now.
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I'm just incredibly happy that this happened.
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♪♪♪
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Female: the harvest crusade, 50,000 people all came
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Out to worship the lord and all those people
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Committed their lives.
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It was just an amazing experience.
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I know a lot of people that were there made
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That decision to come here today,
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And i just think that that's amazing
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To see all these people publicly commit themselves
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To the lord, and it's a great thing.
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Jesus, to me, he is the one and only.
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He is everything to me.
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He is my light in all the darkness.
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He is my savior.
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He is my lord, and i would be nothing
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Without him, and i just-- i feel such an honor
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To be here to know that i just committed
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Myself fully to him.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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I've got some good news for you.
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God loves you, and god has a plan
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For your life.
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Here's the problem.
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We're separated from god by our sin
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Because we've all broken his commandments.
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But the good news is, is 2,000 years ago,
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God sent his son, jesus christ, to die on the cross
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For your sin and then to rise again
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From the dead.
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The same jesus who died and rose is alive
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And ready to come into your life right now.
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Would you like your sin forgiven?
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Would you like to know that when you die, you will go
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To heaven?
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If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner,
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But i believe you're the savior who died
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On the cross for my sin.
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I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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From this moment forward."
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Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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If you did, god in heaven has heard you.
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And let me be the first to say to you,
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Congratulations, and welcome to the family of god.
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Greg Laurie - Harvest Crusade 2024: Recap and Testimonies

July 12, 2026 | 27:29

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