Greg Laurie - Havest Crusade 2024 - Recap and Testimonies

March 12, 2025 | S25:E61

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Havest Crusade 2024 - Recap and Testimonies | March 12, 2025

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♪♪♪
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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 find the answer
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To all those questions because god created you to know him.
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♪♪♪
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Female: in a world where things are really dark and really
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Scary, it's easy to think that wrong is right and right
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Is wrong.
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And you can't even tell what's going on anymore, and it feels
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Like just depression and anxiety has completely taken ahold.
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Female: especially this new generation, 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, and it's
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A beautiful thing to have this and reach out to those people.
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Female: i know a lot of people, i think they want
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To come to christ, they just don't know how.
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It's so easy to get lost in the world, 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.
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And events like this, it's kind of a testimony to, like,
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That actually, god is moving.
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Greg: when i was a young christian, back in the days of
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The jesus movement, we were sitting down at the beach there
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At big corona and there's some christians singing.
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And when i was done speaking, they said, "pastor, could you
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Baptize us?"
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And i said, "no, i'm not a pastor, i'm just here talking
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With these other believers."
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And i looked up, and a little crowd had gathered up on
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The rocks.
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As clear as day, the holy spirit said to me, "preach the gospel."
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And so i found myself preaching to these people, and some people
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Came down and i baptized them as well.
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And so the lord was sort of giving me a glimpse into
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The future.
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When you go in the water, it's like you're saying goodbye to
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The old life, you're burying the old you, so this is the
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Happiest funeral service you're ever going to attend.
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Female: i feel like there's lots of division in our nation right
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Now, and so we definitely need lots of unity and coming
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Together, which is, i think exactly what this event does.
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Female: i mean, seeing everybody here today gives me hope.
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You know, there's so many people.
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I honestly didn't think it was gonna be this crowded, so seeing
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This many people gives me hope.
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Female: there's a lot of youth that are on fire, and there's
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A lot of people who are yearning and want to be.
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So, i mean, we're here, and i know there's other people out
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There too, they're not alone.
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Jonathan laurie: it is my honor to welcome you to
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Our 35th annual harvest crusade.
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Come on, who would have thought?
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35 years later, here we are.
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Cathe laurie: when i look at what's happening in the world
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Today, i get excited because the scriptures say when the enemy
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Comes in like a flood, the spirit of the lord will raise up
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A standard against him.
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Art reyes: your word tells us, lord, that you came to seek and
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Save the lost.
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Your word says that who the son sets free is free indeed.
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And so we pray, lord, that you would bless, that you would
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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 in tonight.
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So we're very excited to have all of you here tonight, but i
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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 thinking about the things
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That you've done, the people you've hurt, the devastation
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You've caused, but god can forgive you of your sin and
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Remove your guilt.
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The bible says that if we will confess our sin, he's faithful
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And just to forgive us our sin and cleanse us from
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All unrighteousness.
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And if you become a christian, and this is the most important
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One of all, you will know that you will go to heaven one day.
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That's the most important, 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, one out of
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Every one persons will die.
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And so the question is: where are you going to spend
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The afterlife?
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Well, if you put your faith in christ, you can know for sure
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That you will go to heaven when you die.
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Jesus said i am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man
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Comes to the father but by me.
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Your life will go from hopelessness to hope, from black
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And white to color, when christ comes in your life.
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And let me tell you how i became a christian: it was the last
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Thing on my mind, age 17, 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, had a lot
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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 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, drinking, getting
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Drunk, and i'm thinking, i don't even enjoy this, why am i even
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Doing it?
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But then the whole drug culture came along and we were told
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Drugs would make us more aware, and there was some truth to that
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Because as i began to experiment with drugs, i became more aware
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Of how empty i was inside.
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So it was almost like a process of elimination: i didn't want to
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Live the lifestyle of my mother and the other adults i knew.
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I didn't wanna live this druggie lifestyle that i had found
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Myself in.
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Where was the answer?
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Well, i transferred from one high school to another because
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On the school i was transferring to, they had a strong drug
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Culture, meaning that the people in charge kind of looked the
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Other way.
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And so i went there to change, but instead of finding
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A drug culture, i found a jesus culture.
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All right, on my first day of school, some of my friends said,
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"greg, watch out, we have a lot of jesus freaks in this campus."
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And i said, "the last thing greg laurie will ever do
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Is become a jesus freak," famous last words.
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And of course, i heard the gospel for the first time in
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A way that i understood, 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 in the bible.
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Well, there actually is a sinner's prayer in the bible,
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And it's in the story that jesus told us, found in luke
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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 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 prayed this: 'god,
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I thank you i'm not like other people--cheaters,
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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, i give a tenth of my income.'
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And the tax collector stood at a distance, he dared not even lift
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His eyes to heaven as he prayed.
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Instead, he beat his chest in sorrow, saying, 'o god, be
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Merciful to me, a sinner."'
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Now jesus offers his conclusion: "i tell you, that sinner, not
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The pharisee, returned home justified before god.
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For those that exalt themselves will be humbled, and those that
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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, god looks on the inside.
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The bible says that people judge by outward appearance, but
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The lord looks on thoughts and intentions.
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And we're such a culture that's absorbed with the way that
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We look.
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I mean, every time i turn around, i'm reading a new
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Article about someone who dies taking a selfie, right?
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They're at the edge of a cliff or standing on the railroad
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Track, i want to get this selfie.
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Yeah, crazy!
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And when someone takes a picture and you're in the group of
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People, you always want to see it first.
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You say, don't post that, 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; $16 billion
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A year is spent on cosmetic surgery in america, and that's
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Newport beach alone.
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It's really not, i'm just kidding.
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The mayor of newport beach is here, he's probably not happy
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With me.
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But this is funny, a study showed that babies as young as
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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 want to find out if you're attractive or not,
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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 with them everywhere, you
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Probably noticed that.
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And they have all these doodles now, there are all these
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Versions of poodles and other breeds that are mixed together.
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And i read about a person who actually was ordering what was
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Described as "a dog of his dreams."
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It was a specialized poodle, so he ordered two of them.
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And it turns out they looked a little different to him, he took
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Them to his vet, they actually weren't poodles at all, they
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Were actually giant rodents that had been put on steroids, okay?
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So, not good, kind of gross too.
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Though, i would like to see one of these rodents on steroids.
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God sees things differently than we do.
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Two men are praying, one appears to be devout and religious,
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The other appears to be wicked and sinful, but actually, things
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Are not as they always appear.
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My son, jonathan, has an older brother,
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Had an older brother, still has one, 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, a church of
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Recovering addicts.
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And jonathan was a clean cut kid, jonathan dressed well.
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He put on a clean shirt and he goes to this church, and he was
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Kind of shocked by the people that were attending.
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The guy that greeted them in the front had a patch over his eye
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And a skull and crossbones tattooed on his head, right?
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And so this is kind of a rough bunch, and jonathan's kind of
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Judging them.
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Even though he's not walking with god at this point in his
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Life like his brother christopher was, he's kind of
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Judging these guys because of the way they looked on the
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Outside, because they looked like the way they used to look
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Like, you could tell where they had come from.
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But then as it--the service went on and he saw these people
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Worshiping god, it had dawned on him, they're the ones that are
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Pleasing to god, not me.
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And sometimes we think, oh, i'm a good person and i go to
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Church, or i read my bible 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 should do them,
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But sometimes we can be good on the outside and not be right on
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The inside.
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We think by living a good life, we will find ourselves getting
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To heaven.
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But you're not gonna get to heaven by living a good life
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At all.
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If you wanted to sum up all the religions of the world, you
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Could do it in one word, do: do this and maybe you'll get
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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 accept you.
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But christianity be can--can be summed up in one single
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Word, done.
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Salvation is done, it's given to you as a gift from god;
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Purchased by jesus christ on the cross, when he bore the sin of
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The world and he said, "it is finished."
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Let me tell you something that might surprise you, there's
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Gonna be some bad people in heaven and there's gonna be
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Some good people in hell.
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I know i lost some people just then, like, well, what are you
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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, heaven is for forgiven
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People, you see.
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Forgiven people.
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There could be a good person in hell, meaning that they lived
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A good life, they thought they were moral, but they fell short
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Of god's standards.
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But there could be a bad person that makes it into heaven
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Because if they will admit their sin and ask christ to forgive
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Them, he will.
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Listen, no matter what sins you have committed, god will forgive
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You tonight if you'll admit those sins and turn your back on
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Them 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 probably far
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Worse than stealing, he probably was a murderer.
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Because rome would not crucify a thief, but they would certainly
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Crucify an insurrectionist, so maybe he rebelled against rome.
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I don't know what he did exactly, but he was being
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Crucified for it.
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And as jesus is hung on the cross, the whole crowd begins to
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Mock him, saying, "if he's really the son of god, let him
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Save himself."
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And that thief joined in with the other thief and said
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The same thing to jesus.
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And then jesus gave a statement that changed everything.
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The first words of jesus from the cross were, "father, forgive
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Them, for they know not what they do."
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And the hardened heart of that criminal melted, and he realized
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That jesus was the very son of god.
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And he turned to jesus and said, "lord, remember me when you
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Come into your kingdom."
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And jesus said, "truly, truly, i say to you, today you will be
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With me in paradise."
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A bad person got in to heaven.
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You see how it works?
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And god can do that for you.
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Because when you become a christian, you become
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A different person on the inside.
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The bible says: "if any man be in christ, he is an altogether
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Different kind of person: old things pass away; behold,
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Everything becomes fresh and new."
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I love it when it rains: everything is clean,
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Every--everyone gets a free car wash, you might even see
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A beautiful rainbow.
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And that's what happens when you put your faith 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, be merciful to me,
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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, but this is the
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Gist of the prayer, 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, 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, a sinner," and a better
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Translation than 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, and he knew it.
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And see, god has given us the ten commandments.
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And some people say, well, i live 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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They don't know.
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Well, let me tell you some of them: you shall not have
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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 those commandments.
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And the bible says, 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, you have to take responsibility for
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Your sin.
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Another definition of the word sin means to miss a mark.
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Think of an archery contest, and the objective is to get
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Your arrow into the bull's-eye or at least hit the target.
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So one person may fire ten arrows and all ten of them hit
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The target, but none of them 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.
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And maybe i missed the mark more than you missed the mark, but it
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Doesn't matter because if you fall short of god's standards,
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You have sinned.
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Jesus said, "be perfect, as my father in heaven 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, i have to admit my sin.
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Every sinner needs a savior.
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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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So when i lead people in a sinner's prayer, i say pray this
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After me, god, i know 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, and jesus is the savior of
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The world.
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Jesus will save you from your sin tonight.
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The bible says: "whoever will call upon the name of the lord
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Will be saved."
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And i love the word saved.
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We save it for dramatic situations like maybe when
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A firefighter rushes into a burning building and brings
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Someone out, maybe a child, and we say the firefighter saved
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The life of the child.
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And certainly, that is the appropriate word to you.
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We all know that there was an assassination attempt on
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President trump and miraculously, he was
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Only wounded.
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He himself said this--
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[audience cheering]
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He himself said, "it was god himself who
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Stopped the unthinkable for happening--from happening."
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And then he said, "i stand here today because
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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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[audience applauding]
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By the way, if president biden had been shot, i would be saying
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The same thing about him because we don't want to see violence
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Against people running for office in our country.
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We decide with ballots, not bullets in america.
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[audience applauding]
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But i am thankful god spared president trump's life, but
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Another man died that day.
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As you know, he's a firefighter, his name is corey comperatore.
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And as the bullets began to fly, he threw his body over
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The family that was with him, his daughters and his wife, and
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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 when he died
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For the sins of the world.
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Jesus came to pay a debt he did not owe because we owed a debt
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We could not pay.
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A sinner, that's you, that's me.
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Needs a savior, 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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Oh yes, hell.
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You know, sometimes people say,
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“i don't like all these hellfire and brimstone preachers.”
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Reall, i haven't heard any lately.
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Where do you find them these days?
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Seems like we wanna skirt the subject of hell,
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But jesus spoke more about hell
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Than all the other preachers in the bible put together.
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Hell is real, and the last thing that a god of love wants
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Is for any man or any woman to spend eternity
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Separated from him in this place called hell.
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Male: i was in a really dark place, didn't know who i was,
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Just looking to figure out who i was.
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I heard about the harvest festival because of my parents
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And i'm like, "can we go?"
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Female: six months ago, i lost my brother.
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Tragically, two days later after my brother, my dad passed away,
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So it's trying to build an understanding of why.
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Greg: 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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Male: dealing a lot with suicidal thoughts and thinking
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That i'm not enough.
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But the one person who always stuck by me was god; brought me
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Out of my darkness, and i know he could do the same
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For other people, 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 feel refreshed, and i feel
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Like a new start has begun in my life.
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Female: when i went under the water, there was a moment of,
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Like, time standing still.
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I felt like the sins that i've done kind of just washed away.
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Male: greg laurie talked about the biggest decision we can
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Make, you know, before our time is up on this planet,
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And i wanna spend eternity in heaven.
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I wanna live for jesus.
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Greg: jesus says: "come to me, all ye that labor and are
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Heavy laden, and i will give you rest."
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Just you come to him and you watch what god will do.
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Female: overwhelmed, i guess, would be the word i would
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Probably use.
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I just felt like i needed to get right with god.
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Female: i just--i feel i need to get closer to god
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And you really-- i really felt it tonight.
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Female: i look forward to just going to church tomorrow
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And really fulfilling this with god, and i just--
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I'm really excited 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 and
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A savior who is ready to forgive.
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Female: i'm from sheyenne, north dakota, and i came out here for
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The harvest crusade.
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I need to fill a void that i've had inside my heart for so long.
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And it was just filled, and i wished i would have done it
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A long time ago.
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Female: i'm just feeling amazing, like i just feel
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So peaceful and like i just--
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It's all--like my sin is gone 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 out to
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Worship the lord and all those people 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 that decision to come
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Here today, and i just think that that's amazing, to see all
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These people publicly commit themselves to the lord.
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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 without him.
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And i just--i feel such an honor to be here, to know that i just
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Committed myself fully to him.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: have you ever heard the term gospel before?
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It means good news.
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But before i can fully appreciate the good news,
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I have to know the bad news.
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You and i were sinners, which means we've broken god's
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Commandments, we've fallen short of his standards.
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Good news, jesus christ died in our place.
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He came to pay a debt he did not owe because we owed a debt we
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Could not pay.
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If you will turn from your sin
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And put your faith in jesus christ, you can be forgiven
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And know that you'll go to heaven when you die
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And find the meaning of life right here on planet earth.
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You just call out to jesus and say:
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Forgive me, i want to have a relationship with you.
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I would like to send you a bible
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At no charge to help you get
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Started in your new relationship
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With christ.
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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, we've been able to
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Touch people all over the world with the hope 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, they also help us to
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Bring hope to people in their biggest need, whether through
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Our evangelistic events or our relief efforts, together we've
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Been able to minister to so many people devastated by the fires
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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 the
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Great commission.
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Let's do this together, and let me say in advance,
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Thank you and god bless you.
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Greg Laurie - Havest Crusade 2024 - Recap and Testimonies

March 12, 2025 | S25:E61

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