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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - How To Be Happy (Part 2) | September 24, 2025
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- Greg laurie: see, the problem is sometimes as christians
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- We're persecuted for the wrong reasons.
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- We're persecuted because we're obnoxious, or because we're very
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- Judgmental, or we all act like a bunch of karens all the time.
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- You know what i'm talking about?
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- Always a critical word.
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- Always a lecture.
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- Always looking down on others.
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- The very opposite of what we ought to be as followers
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- Of jesus.
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- Well, let it be for righteousness' sake, because
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- You're a bright light in a dark place.
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- ♪ this is the day, ♪
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- ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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- ♪ this is the day, ♪
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- ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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- Greg: happiness, it's something we all want, but it can be so
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- Elusive and it's not unique to our day and age, by the way.
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- 2000 years ago, the greek philosopher aristotle made this
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- Statement, "happiness is the meaning and purpose in life.
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- It's the very aim and end of human existence."
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- But how can we find happiness?
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- Sometimes people say money will make you happy.
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- Well, we know that's not true, because we all know of people
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- That have a lot of money who are not happy.
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- I know a guy who lives in a home without a sink, without water,
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- Without a ceiling.
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- This guy has nothing.
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- Yet he's happy.
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- And you want to know why?
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- Because he's stupid.
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- Now, that's a joke.
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- Okay.
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- So we know where we won't find happiness but where do we
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- Find happiness?
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- You know usa today newspaper did an article on happiness, what it
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- Is and how to get it.
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- They interviewed hundreds of experts on the topic and they
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- Did this study during the holiday season.
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- So they thought people would maybe be a little more happy
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- Than normal.
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- And here's what they discovered from talking to experts on the
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- Subject of happiness.
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- Number one, they discovered that families and friends provide the
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- Best antidote to unhappiness.
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- A marriage makes most people happier and a close family
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- Inoculates many kids against despair, according to long
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- Term research.
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- They also found the happiest people all seem to have
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- Good friends.
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- So families and friends, the best antidote to unhappiness.
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- Number two, things don't make you happy.
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- University of illinois psychologist,
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- Ed diner said, quote, materialism is toxic
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- For happiness.
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- Even rich materialists aren't as happy as those who could care
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- Less about getting and spending.
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- Number three, i found this one very interesting.
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- If you wanna be happy, be grateful for what you have.
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- So gratefulness is a key component of happiness.
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- Psychologists say gratitude has a lot to do with life
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- Satisfaction, talking and writing about what they're
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- Grateful for, amplifies adults happiness.
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- They also said it's important to learn to savor even the smallest
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- Pleasures of life.
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- Here's another one i really like this.
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- "forgiven people are happy people."
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- Forgiven.
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- Excuse me, "forgiving people--" well forgiven too, but forgiving
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- People are happy people.
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- University of michigan psychologist, christopher
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- Peterson says, quote, "forgiveness is the trait most
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- Strongly linked to happiness."
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- End quote.
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- He adds, "it's the queen of all virtues and probably the hardest
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- To come by."
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- One more point, they found that scandinavians are the
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- Happiest people.
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- Do we have any scandinavians here?
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- Ok.
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- Are you happy?
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- Oh don -- there you go.
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- So if you're scandinavian, you have this wire, otherwise
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- There's these other principles.
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- But isn't it worth noting that all of these are biblical
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- Principles and premise apart from being scandinavian
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- Gratefulness, forgiving, family, friends and so forth.
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- So here before us, now in the sermon on the mount, the point
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- Of entry is what we call the beatitudes, or another way to
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- Put it attitudes that should be.
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- You could even call them the be happy attitudes, right?
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- And each word or each beatitude begins with the word blessed.
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- And as i pointed out to you before the word blessed is
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- Interchangeable with the word happy.
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- So you could just as easily say, happy are
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- The poor in spirit,
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- Happy are the meek,
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- Happy are they that hunger and thirst
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- After righteousness and
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- So forth?
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- So keep that in mind as we read them again, jesus is unlocking
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- For us the secret to happiness.
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- Matthew chapter 5, starting at verse 2, "he opened his mouth
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- And taught them," that would be the disciples, "saying," verse
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- 3, "blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the
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- Kingdom of heaven.
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- Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
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- Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
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- Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for
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- They shall be filled.
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- Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
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- Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god.
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- Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons
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- Of god."
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- We'll stop there.
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- Let's review what we already discovered together.
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- First of all, happy are the humble, happy are the humble.
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- "blessed are the poor in spirit."
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- To be poor in spirit means you see yourself as you really are,
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- Spiritually destitute.
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- A sinner in need of a savior.
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- Number two, happy people are unhappy people, if you will.
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- "blessed are they that mourn," verse 4, "for they shall
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- Be comforted."
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- Contextually, what this means is, i see my sinful condition.
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- I'm sorry for the way that i am.
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- I'm sorry for the things i've said and things that i've done,
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- And i mourn over it.
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- The bible says, "godly sorrow produces repentance."
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- And thirdly a happy person will be a meek person.
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- Verse 5, "blessed are the meek," and all that means is simply
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- Seeing myself as i am.
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- It's power under constraint.
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- Remember meekness is not weakness, power is submitting
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- Yourself to the authority of god.
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- Then we have the desire for a righteous life.
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- A happy person passionately desires a righteous life.
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- Verse 6, "blessed are those that hunger and thirst for
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- Righteousness, for they shall be filled."
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- This is speaking of spiritual hunger.
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- So, it's a hunger and thirst for righteousness, though, a hunger
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- And desire for god.
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- And so this is something we should desire.
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- And then we come to the first now of the beatitudes, we're
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- Gonna look at where we look at how, what happy people do, how
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- They behave.
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- Starting with happy people are merciful people.
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- Happy people are merciful people.
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- Look at verse 7, "blessed are the merciful."
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- What does that mean?
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- To be merciful means that i understand and empathize with
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- Those that don't know jesus yet.
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- You know, it's very easy in our polarized society today,
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- Especially as we're in an election year.
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- To see anyone that disagrees with us as our mortal enemy, but
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- We should never think of someone who holds a different view than
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- We hold, or someone who does not have our faith,
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- A non-believer, as the enemy.
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- They're not the enemy.
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- The fact of the matter is they're under the control of the
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- Enemy, and the enemy is satan.
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- And the bible says we should pray for people that are not
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- Believers yet.
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- 2 timothy 2:26, "so they'll come to their senses and escape from
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- The devil's trap.
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- For they are being held captive by him to do whatever he wants."
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- So when i'm merciful, i see behind the mask, i see behind
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- The facade and i see the person.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: i heard about how they were shipping codfish from the
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- East coast to the west coast, but the problem was when it
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- Arrived, it was spoiled.
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- So they decided to freeze it.
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- But by the time it arrived, it was mushy to the taste.
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- So then they sent it alive, but by the time it arrived, it
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- Was dead.
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- Then someone came up with this very bright idea, inside of
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- Every tank of codfish, they put the mortal enemy of the codfish
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- In the tank with them, a catfish.
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- And by the time it arrived, it was great and delicious to the
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- Taste because the catfish chased the codfish around the tank for
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- The entire trip.
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- Has god put a catfish in your tank?
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- And by that, i mean, maybe an antagonistic person that's
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- Always arguing with you, always debating you on the things that
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- You believe, and you've even prayed, lord, remove this person
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- From my life.
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- Did you ever stop and think that maybe god's allowed that to keep
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- You strong spiritually, but also did you consider the fact that
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- Maybe that person is closer to the kingdom of god than
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- You realize?
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- I think when we meet someone that's very nice and pleasant,
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- And we tell them about jesus and they say something along the
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- Lines of, oh, i'm glad you found religion.
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- You seem to be a happier person.
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- We think, well, they're close to coming to the lord.
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- You know, you'll invite them to church, wanna come to
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- Church sunday?
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- They'll say no, i'm busy.
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- What about the next sunday?
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- I'm busy then too.
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- What about a month from now?
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- Still busy.
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- What about six months from now?
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- I'm busy.
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- Now they're nice but they're not interested.
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- But then there's that antagonistic person, that
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- Catfish, if you will.
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- Always the question, always the challenge, always a debate.
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- The reason they may be acting the way they're acting is
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- Because they're under the conviction of the holy spirit.
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- It's been said when you throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the
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- One that barks the loudest is the one that got hit.
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- They may be being convicted by the lord and be close to coming
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- To jesus, so don't give up on 'em, keep praying for them.
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- Maybe god put that catfish in your tank.
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- God will use it to keep you closer to him, and he might even
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- Bring that person to christ.
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- Greg: the word that jesus uses here in matthew 6:3 for mercy,
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- Is also used concerning the word alms giving.
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- So what it means literally is helping a person in need.
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- It's very simple.
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- Mercy is seeing a man without food and giving him food.
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- Mercy is seeing someone who is lonely and giving them company.
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- Mercy is not just seeing a need, it's meeting the need, it's
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- Pity plus action.
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- It's doing something about it.
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- We can stand around all day and say, oh, i feel so sorry for
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- Those people.
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- But mercy says, i'm gonna do something for those people.
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- These people who extend mercy.
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- It's very important, but let's not misunderstand it.
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- He says, "blessed are the merciful, for they shall
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- Obtain mercy."
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- Jesus is not saying i must give mercy in order to receive mercy.
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- Because if that were the case, that would mean there's
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- Something i do to receive salvation.
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- Here's what it really means.
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- Jesus is saying, since you have been a recipient of mercy, since
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- God has extended his mercy to you, therefore, you should be a
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- Merciful person.
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- Forgiven people should be forgiving people, willing to
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- Show that same mercy to others as well.
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- Number two, a happy person will be a holy person.
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- A happy person will be a holy person.
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- Verse 8, "blessed are the pure in heart for they shall
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- See god."
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- Now this comes back to what's already happened to us, if we go
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- To the first beatitude.
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- I've seen myself as i am, a sinner.
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- I've mourned over my condition, producing a sense of meekness in
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- Me, and a hunger and thirst for spiritual things, and a desire
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- To extend mercy.
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- Now, i have this purity in heart.
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- You know, it's funny with the heart, because we use it to
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- Express our emotion.
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- We'll say something like, well, you know, my mind says one
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- Thing, but my heart says another.
- 00:13:02.380 --> 00:13:05.150
- Or if we don't think someone is compassionate enough, we'll say,
- 00:13:05.216 --> 00:13:08.153
- Hey, man, where's your heart?
- 00:13:08.153 --> 00:13:10.355
- Or of another, we might say, oh, he wears his heart on
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- His sleeve.
- 00:13:13.858 --> 00:13:15.193
- So coming back to the question of where's your heart?
- 00:13:15.193 --> 00:13:16.961
- Maybe it's on your sleeve, check it might be there.
- 00:13:16.961 --> 00:13:19.464
- Then there's countless songs about the heart.
- 00:13:19.531 --> 00:13:22.233
- Of course, stevie nicks sing along with tom petty, "stop
- 00:13:22.300 --> 00:13:26.371
- Draggin' my heart around."
- 00:13:26.371 --> 00:13:28.506
- Billy ray cyrus had an "achy breaky heart" and he also had
- 00:13:28.573 --> 00:13:33.444
- A mullet.
- 00:13:33.444 --> 00:13:34.846
- And the mullet has made a comeback.
- 00:13:35.713 --> 00:13:37.515
- Can you believe it?
- 00:13:37.515 --> 00:13:38.883
- Who would have ever thought of all hairstyles, we would see
- 00:13:38.883 --> 00:13:41.719
- Mullets again, but i'm seeing them everywhere.
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- I see a guy with one right now.
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- Okay.
- 00:13:45.423 --> 00:13:47.458
- So i had something worse than a mullet, and i wish i had a
- 00:13:47.525 --> 00:13:50.295
- Picture but i don't have one for you.
- 00:13:50.295 --> 00:13:52.163
- I had something worse than a mullet.
- 00:13:52.163 --> 00:13:53.798
- I call it a skullet.
- 00:13:53.798 --> 00:13:55.233
- Oh, there it is.
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- We have the picture.
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- Okay.
- 00:13:58.236 --> 00:13:59.571
- Now, let's analyze this for a moment.
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- This is greg in about 1992.
- 00:14:01.739 --> 00:14:04.108
- I'm losing my hair, so i'm combing it over on the top.
- 00:14:04.108 --> 00:14:08.246
- You know what a comb over is, right?
- 00:14:08.313 --> 00:14:09.814
- How many of you have comb overs?
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- Okay.
- 00:14:11.249 --> 00:14:12.584
- They'll never admit it.
- 00:14:12.584 --> 00:14:13.952
- We know what you're doing.
- 00:14:13.952 --> 00:14:15.286
- So you grow your hair really long, you comb it over, and then
- 00:14:15.286 --> 00:14:17.889
- You lay hairspray on it.
- 00:14:17.889 --> 00:14:19.891
- I had so much hairspray on my comb over, it was bulletproof.
- 00:14:19.958 --> 00:14:24.495
- But then if that wasn't enough, look at that.
- 00:14:24.562 --> 00:14:26.464
- Oh, that's brutal.
- 00:14:28.299 --> 00:14:29.901
- That's brutal.
- 00:14:30.735 --> 00:14:32.103
- So it's combed over.
- 00:14:32.770 --> 00:14:35.173
- Oh, it's just that photo needs to be burned.
- 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.509
- Wow.
- 00:14:39.944 --> 00:14:41.579
- I'm so humiliated, i'm leaving.
- 00:14:41.646 --> 00:14:43.715
- Anyway, billy ray cyrus had his "achy breaky heart" and his
- 00:14:46.417 --> 00:14:51.356
- Mullet before i got sidetracked.
- 00:14:51.356 --> 00:14:53.925
- So we sing about the heart.
- 00:14:53.992 --> 00:14:55.426
- We talk about the heart and what we are saying is, well, it's our
- 00:14:55.426 --> 00:14:59.264
- Emotion, but in the bible, that's not what the heart means.
- 00:14:59.264 --> 00:15:03.534
- It doesn't mean your emotion.
- 00:15:03.534 --> 00:15:05.536
- When the bible says, "love the lord, your god with all of your
- 00:15:05.603 --> 00:15:08.406
- Mind, with all of your soul, and with all of your heart, it's
- 00:15:08.406 --> 00:15:11.342
- Talking about loving god with everything.
- 00:15:11.342 --> 00:15:14.145
- In the hebrew thinking, and as jesus is expressing it, when we
- 00:15:14.212 --> 00:15:19.250
- Talk about being pure in heart, it means your whole being is
- 00:15:19.250 --> 00:15:22.754
- Directed toward god, and it's purity.
- 00:15:22.754 --> 00:15:26.157
- But how do you have a pure heart?
- 00:15:26.224 --> 00:15:27.625
- Let's understand what it means.
- 00:15:27.625 --> 00:15:29.627
- To be pure in heart means to be single in your heart.
- 00:15:29.694 --> 00:15:34.065
- Let me explain.
- 00:15:34.065 --> 00:15:35.433
- Later in the "sermon on the mount," jesus says, "if your eye
- 00:15:35.433 --> 00:15:38.436
- Is single, your whole body will be full of light.
- 00:15:38.436 --> 00:15:41.039
- But if your eye is evil--or double visioned--your whole body
- 00:15:41.039 --> 00:15:45.443
- Will be full of darkness."
- 00:15:45.443 --> 00:15:47.011
- To be single or to be pure in heart means to have a single
- 00:15:47.011 --> 00:15:52.317
- Focus on jesus christ.
- 00:15:52.383 --> 00:15:55.453
- That clarity.
- 00:15:56.154 --> 00:15:58.323
- It's a one thing we should all want as christians.
- 00:15:58.389 --> 00:16:00.992
- David wrote, "one thing have i desired of the lord, and that
- 00:16:00.992 --> 00:16:05.330
- Will i seek after that i may dwell in the house of the lord
- 00:16:05.330 --> 00:16:08.633
- All the days of my life."
- 00:16:08.633 --> 00:16:10.001
- One thing.
- 00:16:10.001 --> 00:16:11.336
- Then paul says, this one thing i do, forgetting the things that
- 00:16:11.336 --> 00:16:14.439
- Are behind, and pressing forward to the things that are before, i
- 00:16:14.439 --> 00:16:18.176
- Press toward the mark for the prize of the upward call of god
- 00:16:18.176 --> 00:16:21.813
- In christ jesus.
- 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:24.015
- But also a happy person will be a peacemaker.
- 00:16:24.082 --> 00:16:27.518
- Look at verse 9, "blessed are the peacemakers for they shall
- 00:16:27.585 --> 00:16:31.289
- Be called sons of god."
- 00:16:31.289 --> 00:16:33.424
- Now this is not talking really about people that march for
- 00:16:33.491 --> 00:16:37.562
- Peace, or work for peace, although that is a good thing if
- 00:16:37.562 --> 00:16:40.531
- It's done right.
- 00:16:40.531 --> 00:16:42.166
- But having said that, this verse is really talking about a person
- 00:16:42.233 --> 00:16:45.937
- Who is spreading the gospel of peace.
- 00:16:46.004 --> 00:16:49.007
- Seeking to introduce people to the prince of peace.
- 00:16:49.007 --> 00:16:52.844
- The gospel is called the "good news of peace" through jesus
- 00:16:52.844 --> 00:16:56.647
- Christ in acts 10:36.
- 00:16:56.647 --> 00:16:59.450
- In romans 10:15, it says, "how beautiful are the feet of those
- 00:16:59.517 --> 00:17:03.454
- Who preach the gospel of peace, who bring glad tidings of
- 00:17:03.454 --> 00:17:07.558
- Good things."
- 00:17:07.558 --> 00:17:08.926
- But i have to warn you when you preach the gospel of peace, some
- 00:17:08.926 --> 00:17:13.097
- People are going to revolt.
- 00:17:13.097 --> 00:17:15.233
- Sometimes people need to get mad at you before you can get them
- 00:17:15.233 --> 00:17:19.871
- Happy with you.
- 00:17:19.871 --> 00:17:21.239
- Does that make sense?
- 00:17:21.239 --> 00:17:22.774
- Jesus summed it up this way.
- 00:17:22.840 --> 00:17:24.976
- He said over in matthew 10:34, "do you think that i came to
- 00:17:24.976 --> 00:17:29.247
- Bring peace on earth?
- 00:17:29.247 --> 00:17:30.782
- I did not come to bring peace, but a sword, for a man's enemies
- 00:17:30.782 --> 00:17:35.620
- Will be those of his own household."
- 00:17:35.620 --> 00:17:38.289
- You say, now i don't understand what you're talking about.
- 00:17:38.289 --> 00:17:40.391
- Okay, here's how it works.
- 00:17:40.391 --> 00:17:42.193
- It's the unity that brings division.
- 00:17:42.260 --> 00:17:45.363
- Let's take your family, and let's say your family, you're
- 00:17:45.430 --> 00:17:51.102
- All nonbelievers.
- 00:17:51.102 --> 00:17:52.637
- And when you get together for the holidays, you drink, and you
- 00:17:52.637 --> 00:17:56.240
- Get drunk, and you tell off-color jokes and you carry on
- 00:17:56.240 --> 00:18:00.211
- Like a family.
- 00:18:00.211 --> 00:18:01.579
- And in your own dysfunctional way, you have something
- 00:18:01.579 --> 00:18:05.450
- Going there.
- 00:18:05.450 --> 00:18:06.818
- And then you go out and dare to become a christian.
- 00:18:06.818 --> 00:18:10.521
- And you show up at the family reunion.
- 00:18:10.588 --> 00:18:12.657
- Hey, everybody.
- 00:18:12.657 --> 00:18:13.991
- And now as the meal's being served, you say, do you think
- 00:18:13.991 --> 00:18:17.662
- Maybe we could do a little prayer?
- 00:18:17.662 --> 00:18:19.831
- And you even say it like that.
- 00:18:19.897 --> 00:18:21.332
- Let's pray.
- 00:18:21.332 --> 00:18:22.967
- Oh brother.
- 00:18:23.034 --> 00:18:24.435
- Yeah.
- 00:18:25.103 --> 00:18:26.437
- Go ahead.
- 00:18:26.437 --> 00:18:27.805
- You do your little prayer.
- 00:18:27.805 --> 00:18:29.140
- Everyone resents you.
- 00:18:29.140 --> 00:18:30.508
- You're ruining all their fun.
- 00:18:30.508 --> 00:18:31.843
- Why did you have to go and become a christian?
- 00:18:31.843 --> 00:18:34.212
- You think i came to bring peace?
- 00:18:34.278 --> 00:18:35.746
- I tell you rather division.
- 00:18:35.746 --> 00:18:37.081
- Everyone's mad at you now, but then one other family member
- 00:18:37.081 --> 00:18:41.786
- Comes to christ.
- 00:18:41.786 --> 00:18:43.154
- Now there's two of you.
- 00:18:43.154 --> 00:18:44.489
- Now, you're praying together for the rest of the family.
- 00:18:44.489 --> 00:18:46.124
- Now, there's three of you.
- 00:18:46.124 --> 00:18:47.458
- Now, there's four of you.
- 00:18:47.458 --> 00:18:48.826
- Now, everybody in the family has come to christ and it's a whole
- 00:18:48.826 --> 00:18:52.663
- New world, but someone had to be the first one to believe.
- 00:18:52.663 --> 00:18:56.868
- So that division ultimately brought the ultimate peace in
- 00:18:56.868 --> 00:19:00.905
- Your family.
- 00:19:00.905 --> 00:19:02.273
- Blessed are the peacemakers, jesus says, for they shall be
- 00:19:02.273 --> 00:19:05.610
- Called the sons of god.
- 00:19:05.610 --> 00:19:07.545
- If you're a christian, you are a son of god.
- 00:19:08.613 --> 00:19:12.383
- You are a daughter of god.
- 00:19:12.450 --> 00:19:14.552
- What a privilege that is.
- 00:19:14.552 --> 00:19:15.887
- No matter what you do.
- 00:19:15.887 --> 00:19:17.755
- Maybe you're a wayward son or a wayward daughter, but you're
- 00:19:17.822 --> 00:19:21.893
- Still a son and you're still a daughter.
- 00:19:21.893 --> 00:19:24.495
- "behold what manner of love the father has given to us that we
- 00:19:24.562 --> 00:19:27.999
- Should be called the children of god.
- 00:19:27.999 --> 00:19:30.401
- We're told over in 1 john.
- 00:19:30.401 --> 00:19:32.603
- Now there's one last beatitude.
- 00:19:32.603 --> 00:19:35.206
- I don't think you're gonna like this one, but it's there and
- 00:19:35.273 --> 00:19:39.243
- Fittingly, it's at the very end.
- 00:19:39.243 --> 00:19:42.513
- Number four, a happy person will be persecuted.
- 00:19:42.580 --> 00:19:46.918
- Look at verse 10, "blessed are those who are persecuted for
- 00:19:46.984 --> 00:19:50.788
- Righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- 00:19:50.788 --> 00:19:53.758
- Blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you, and say
- 00:19:53.758 --> 00:19:57.828
- All kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake.
- 00:19:57.828 --> 00:20:01.399
- Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward
- 00:20:01.399 --> 00:20:05.369
- In heaven.
- 00:20:05.369 --> 00:20:06.704
- For so persecuted the prophets that were before you."
- 00:20:06.704 --> 00:20:10.474
- If you wanna be a happy person, you're gonna be a
- 00:20:10.541 --> 00:20:13.144
- Persecuted person.
- 00:20:13.144 --> 00:20:14.478
- Let's put it all together.
- 00:20:14.478 --> 00:20:15.846
- I see myself as i really am.
- 00:20:15.846 --> 00:20:17.515
- I'm poor in spirit.
- 00:20:17.515 --> 00:20:18.849
- I mourn over my condition.
- 00:20:18.849 --> 00:20:20.685
- Blessed are they that mourn.
- 00:20:20.685 --> 00:20:22.220
- It produces a new meekness in me and a hunger and thirst
- 00:20:22.220 --> 00:20:25.723
- For righteousness.
- 00:20:25.723 --> 00:20:27.091
- Now i'm extending mercy to others.
- 00:20:27.091 --> 00:20:29.293
- Now i'm a peacemaker talking about jesus to others.
- 00:20:29.293 --> 00:20:32.597
- People don't like that.
- 00:20:32.597 --> 00:20:35.066
- And because of that, you're going to be persecuted.
- 00:20:35.132 --> 00:20:38.569
- This is one of those promises of god we don't like to claim.
- 00:20:38.636 --> 00:20:42.873
- We'll claim promises all day long about god's provision,
- 00:20:42.940 --> 00:20:46.978
- God's blessing, but then, when's the last time you claimed
- 00:20:46.978 --> 00:20:50.314
- This promise?
- 00:20:50.314 --> 00:20:51.649
- All that live godly in jesus christ will suffer persecution.
- 00:20:51.649 --> 00:20:55.987
- You prayed that one lately?
- 00:20:56.053 --> 00:20:57.388
- Lord, i feel like i'm not being persecuted enough.
- 00:20:57.388 --> 00:21:00.091
- Send more persecution.
- 00:21:00.658 --> 00:21:02.293
- Well, no, we don't pray that.
- 00:21:02.293 --> 00:21:04.595
- But here's what we should do if we're persecuted.
- 00:21:04.662 --> 00:21:07.498
- We should rejoice.
- 00:21:08.065 --> 00:21:10.067
- Notice what jesus says, "blessed," or happy, "are
- 00:21:10.067 --> 00:21:14.105
- The persecuted."
- 00:21:14.105 --> 00:21:15.439
- It's interesting because he uses the word blessed twice, so
- 00:21:15.439 --> 00:21:19.310
- Double blessed are the persecuted, or another way to
- 00:21:19.310 --> 00:21:22.480
- Put it happy, happy are the persecuted.
- 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:27.051
- Because it means that you're a child of god.
- 00:21:27.118 --> 00:21:30.187
- It's confirmation
- 00:21:30.187 --> 00:21:31.522
- You're a child of god.
- 00:21:31.522 --> 00:21:32.890
- Let me turn it around, if you're never persecuted, are you really
- 00:21:32.890 --> 00:21:35.993
- A child of god?
- 00:21:35.993 --> 00:21:37.361
- You know jesus said, beware when all men speak well of you.
- 00:21:38.763 --> 00:21:42.233
- I mean, you can be the nicest person, the friendliest person,
- 00:21:42.300 --> 00:21:45.369
- The most considerate person, and then people make up lies
- 00:21:45.369 --> 00:21:49.106
- About you.
- 00:21:49.106 --> 00:21:50.441
- Good, let them make lies up about you.
- 00:21:50.441 --> 00:21:52.643
- Here's the key, be persecuted for righteousness' sake.
- 00:21:52.710 --> 00:21:56.681
- Jesus did not say blessed are those who are persecuted for
- 00:21:56.747 --> 00:22:00.818
- Self righteousness.
- 00:22:00.818 --> 00:22:02.720
- See, the problem is sometimes as christians we're persecuted for
- 00:22:02.787 --> 00:22:06.290
- The wrong reasons.
- 00:22:06.290 --> 00:22:07.992
- We're persecuted because we're obnoxious, or because we're very
- 00:22:08.059 --> 00:22:13.464
- Judgmental, or we all act like a bunch of karens all the time.
- 00:22:13.464 --> 00:22:17.368
- You know what i'm talking about?
- 00:22:17.435 --> 00:22:18.969
- Always a critical word, always a lecture, always looking down on
- 00:22:19.036 --> 00:22:23.708
- Others, the very opposite of what we ought to be as followers
- 00:22:23.708 --> 00:22:26.577
- Of jesus.
- 00:22:26.577 --> 00:22:28.245
- Well, let it be for righteousness' sake, because
- 00:22:28.312 --> 00:22:31.115
- You're a bright light in a dark place, not persecution for being
- 00:22:31.115 --> 00:22:34.985
- Moronic, or idiotic, or any other reason.
- 00:22:34.985 --> 00:22:38.389
- And persecution can show itself in many ways.
- 00:22:38.389 --> 00:22:40.658
- It can be violent.
- 00:22:40.658 --> 00:22:42.226
- Many christians have been martyred for the faith.
- 00:22:42.293 --> 00:22:46.030
- The most persecuted people in the world today without question
- 00:22:46.030 --> 00:22:50.034
- Are christians, and so you will face persecution.
- 00:22:50.034 --> 00:22:54.505
- It can be violent.
- 00:22:54.505 --> 00:22:56.073
- It can be more subtle.
- 00:22:56.073 --> 00:22:57.441
- Maybe you're canceled because you speak up for what is true.
- 00:22:57.441 --> 00:23:01.379
- It could be the loss of a job.
- 00:23:01.379 --> 00:23:03.114
- Being the brunt of people's jokes.
- 00:23:03.180 --> 00:23:05.316
- Losing friends.
- 00:23:05.316 --> 00:23:06.851
- But it's going to happen.
- 00:23:06.851 --> 00:23:08.185
- So what should i do?
- 00:23:08.185 --> 00:23:09.520
- Hang my head in depression?
- 00:23:09.520 --> 00:23:10.888
- No, jesus says verse 12, "rejoice and be glad."
- 00:23:10.888 --> 00:23:14.225
- Or as another translation puts it, "jump and skip with
- 00:23:14.225 --> 00:23:17.862
- Happy excitement."
- 00:23:17.862 --> 00:23:19.263
- I like that.
- 00:23:19.764 --> 00:23:21.098
- Jump and skip with happy excitement.
- 00:23:21.098 --> 00:23:23.000
- Let's all do that right now.
- 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:24.335
- Come on everybody on your feet.
- 00:23:24.335 --> 00:23:25.703
- There's really not enough room.
- 00:23:25.703 --> 00:23:27.071
- But the very opposite of what we would think.
- 00:23:27.071 --> 00:23:30.408
- Hey, man, "rejoice for so persecuted they the prophets
- 00:23:30.474 --> 00:23:35.780
- That were before you."
- 00:23:35.780 --> 00:23:37.148
- Now look, there is a way out of this, by the way.
- 00:23:37.148 --> 00:23:39.316
- You say, i don't like what you're saying, greg, it makes
- 00:23:39.316 --> 00:23:41.485
- Me uncomfortable.
- 00:23:41.485 --> 00:23:42.853
- I don't wanna be persecuted.
- 00:23:42.853 --> 00:23:44.188
- Okay, here's how you will never be persecuted.
- 00:23:44.188 --> 00:23:46.857
- Are you ready?
- 00:23:46.857 --> 00:23:48.192
- Don't be a peacemaker.
- 00:23:48.192 --> 00:23:50.294
- Don't tell others about jesus.
- 00:23:50.361 --> 00:23:52.630
- Just fit in.
- 00:23:53.164 --> 00:23:54.498
- Do what everybody else does, say what everybody else says, never
- 00:23:54.498 --> 00:23:57.902
- Say what you believe is true, and you won't be persecuted for
- 00:23:57.902 --> 00:24:01.605
- Righteousness' sake.
- 00:24:01.605 --> 00:24:02.940
- But remember what jesus said in luke 9:26, "whoever is ashamed
- 00:24:02.940 --> 00:24:08.479
- Of me and my works, of him will the son of man be ashamed when
- 00:24:08.479 --> 00:24:12.416
- He comes in his glory."
- 00:24:12.416 --> 00:24:15.619
- I don't want jesus to be ashamed of me.
- 00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:18.956
- Persecution is a confirmation that you are a child of god.
- 00:24:18.956 --> 00:24:22.827
- It means you're doing your job right.
- 00:24:22.827 --> 00:24:25.129
- And persecution can be used by god to help us spiritually.
- 00:24:25.129 --> 00:24:29.567
- Now, i know, i've not painted for some, a very appealing
- 00:24:29.567 --> 00:24:33.471
- Picture of the christian life today have i?
- 00:24:33.471 --> 00:24:36.407
- Okay, if you wanna be a christian, you gotta be humble.
- 00:24:36.407 --> 00:24:38.843
- You've got to be meek.
- 00:24:38.843 --> 00:24:40.177
- You've gotta be forgiving.
- 00:24:40.177 --> 00:24:41.545
- You've gotta be merciful, and you'll probably be persecuted.
- 00:24:41.545 --> 00:24:44.615
- Oh, great.
- 00:24:44.615 --> 00:24:46.150
- Where do i sign up?
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- Well look, it's not easy to be a christian.
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- Wimps need not apply.
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- Snowflakes, forget about it.
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- It takes courage to be a christian, especially in this
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- Day and age.
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- But listen to this, jesus christ is not only worth living for,
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- He's worth dying for, right?
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- So, yes, it's not easy, but it's worth it.
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- It's worth it because it gives you life, and meaning, and hope,
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- And purpose in this life, and the certainty of an afterlife,
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- And the presence of god in a place called heaven.
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- Nothing else can give you that.
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- No guru, no prophet, no religious system, no possession,
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- No career, no amount of success, no matter how many followers you
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- Have on social media, none of these things are gonna bring you
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- The happiness you want in life, but a relationship with
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- God will.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: have you ever wondered how to find personal happiness?
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- Hi, i'm pastor greg laurie.
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- Let me tell you a secret about finding happiness.
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- The least happy people are the people that live to be happy.
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- But here's the secret.
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- The bible says, happy are the people whose god is the lord.
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- You will never find happiness from seeking it.
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- But if you come into a relationship with god through
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- Jesus, you'll find the happiness you've been looking for in life.
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- He's just a prayer away.
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- There's a number on the screen.
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- You can call that number.
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- And i wanna send you a free bible and tell you how to be a
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- Happy person and come into a relationship with god.
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- So you have purpose in this life and the life to come.
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- You have the hope of heaven.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Female announcer: jesus says that where two or three are
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- Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
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- We are all different.
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- We have different interests, different personalities,
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- Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
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- But here, we have a deep connection,
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- And you are welcome here.
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- This is harvest.
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