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Greg Laurie - How To Be A World Changer At The End Of The World

February 18, 2025 | S25:E42

Greg Laurie - How To Be A World Changer At The End Of The World
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - How To Be A World Changer At The End Of The World | February 18, 2025
  • Greg laurie: what is a world changer?
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  • It's someone that doesn't accept the status quo.
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  • They don't want to march lockstep with current culture,
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  • Instead, they want to change the culture.
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  • When you walk into a room, do you just adjust to
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  • The temperature or do you change it?
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  • Is the world changing you or are you changing the world?
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins ♪♪
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  • Greg: i just read a poll that revealed most americans believe
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  • Our country has spun off its axis.
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  • And i would say it's not just our country, it's really
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  • The whole world.
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  • Why do things seem so crazy right now?
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  • Doesn't it seem to you as though things are accelerating in the
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  • Wrong direction on every level?
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  • You know why that is?
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  • It's because we're living in the last days.
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  • The bible tells us in 2 timothy 3, "in the last days, things
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  • Will go from bad to worse."
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  • Let's think now a little bit about the nation israel.
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  • She is a modern day miracle.
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  • To think that there is a nation called israel, a homeland for
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  • The jewish people.
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  • Who would have ever thought such a thing could happen as world
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  • War ii was raging, and hitler was building his third reich,
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  • Bent on world domination, and he came up with something he called
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  • The final solution.
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  • And the final solution was his desire to eradicate the jewish
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  • People from the face of the earth.
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  • He built all these concentration camps with names like treblinka,
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  • And ravensbrück, and auschwitz, and others.
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  • And their 6,000,000 jewish men, women, and children were put to
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  • Death by hitler.
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  • It looked like he might succeed, but of course he failed.
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  • Thank god for that.
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  • And mysteriously, unexpectedly, but actually right on schedule,
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  • It's like jewish people around the world got the collective
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  • Message, "it's time to return to our homeland."
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  • And they began to return, and they began to try to build
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  • A nation again.
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  • And on may 14, 1948, israel officially declared themselves a
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  • Nation again, and the prophetic time clock began to tick.
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  • This is not just a sign, this is what we might describe as
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  • A super sign, that such a thing would even happen.
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  • Never has a nation been able to maintain its national identity
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  • Even 300-500 years after being removed from its homeland
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  • Until israel.
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  • David jeremiah in his book, "what in the world is going on,"
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  • Writes this, and i quote, "never had a decimated ancient people
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  • Manage to retain their individual identity through
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  • 20 centuries and then re-establish their nation
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  • In their original homeland.
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  • Yet, this event was specifically prophesied and it happened
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  • Exactly as foretold.
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  • It's clearly a miraculous act of god."
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  • End quote.
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  • Absolutely true.
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  • And listen, god gave this land to the jewish people.
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  • It's in the scripture, over in the book of deuteronomy.
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  • He says in deuteronomy 1:8, "i'm giving all this land to you!
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  • Now go in and occupy it, for this is the land the lord swore
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  • To give to your ancestors abraham, isaac, and jacob,
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  • And all their descendants."
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  • And here's something that might surprise you, and i'll just say
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  • It, and this might offend someone, but i don't care
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  • Anymore because i'm 70.
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  • All right, so.
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  • America needs israel more than israel needs america.
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  • Now, certainly israel has benefited from their
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  • Relationship with us.
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  • We've provided them with a lot of things, most notably the
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  • So-called iron dome, which is a very sophisticated defense
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  • System that has protected them and helped them from many
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  • Attacks that continue to come their way.
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  • But why does america need israel?
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  • Because of a promise that god made in genesis 12:3 when he
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  • Said, "i'll bless those that bless you, and i'll curse those
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  • That curse you."
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  • Look at any nation historically that has raised their hand
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  • Against israel and has sought to destroy her, and look at
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  • What happened.
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  • There's a blessing promised for those that support israel and
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  • Support the jewish people, and i'm happy and proud to say our
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  • Nation has done that.
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  • But, in this story, israel stands alone.
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  • And here's what god says is gonna happen in ezekiel 38:18.
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  • "this is what will happen on that day: when gog attacks
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  • The land of israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares
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  • The sovereign lord."
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  • And then he says he will "decimate magog with their
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  • Armies," and there's so many weapons that it takes seven
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  • Years to destroy them, and then god's gonna pour his spirit out
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  • On israel.
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  • So let's go back to our graph.
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  • Where does this event fit in the prophetic puzzle?
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  • Short answer: i'm not sure.
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  • I'll give you an educated guess.
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  • I think it could happen sometime before or right after
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  • The rapture.
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  • Why do i think that?
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  • Because it takes seven years for them to burn the weapons and the
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  • Tribulation period is seven years, so maybe that's where it
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  • Will happen, but it's somewhere in here.
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  • And here's another thing, it triggers.
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  • A great spiritual awakening happens in israel after god
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  • Destroys magog and gog.
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  • But that is not happening right now, and here's an interesting
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  • Verse in the new testament, romans 11:25.
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  • "want you to understand this mystery," writes paul, "dear
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  • Friends, so you don't feel proud and start bragging.
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  • Because some of the jews have hard hearts, but this will last
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  • Only until the complete number of gentiles comes to christ."
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  • So, god's gonna pour his spirit out on israel, but he hasn't
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  • Done it yet.
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  • But when the full gathering of the gentiles come in, which is
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  • King james 4, the full number of people believing in jesus is
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  • Completed, then the rapture happens, you see?
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  • So this is why i believe there might be walking this planet
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  • Some person that god is waiting for to believe.
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  • Can you imagine if you knew who that person was?
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  • "hey dude, could you get saved, like, now?
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  • Let's go, come on, what?
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  • What are you waiting for?"
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  • The last person believes and we're caught up to meet the lord
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  • In the air.
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  • So we're waiting for that event to happen.
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  • So, "okay," you say, "interesting, but so what?"
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  • Well, this should affect you and the way that you live.
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  • Because you, my friend, are our last days believer.
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  • Now, do i believe jesus could come at any time?
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  • Yes.
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  • Do i believe it might be 10 years from now or 20 years
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  • From now?
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  • Yeah, it could be, i don't know.
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  • I'm not a date setter.
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  • I don't know when he'll come.
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  • No man knows the day of the hour, but i do believe it could
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  • Happen at any moment, and i think we should live in
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  • Anticipation of that as followers of jesus christ.
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  • But there is a prototype for us to look at.
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  • A man who in his way was the last days believer, and his name
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  • Was noah.
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  • Noah lived in the darkest time in human history apart from
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  • Our time.
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  • In fact, it was as dark as it's ever been, but it'll even get
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  • Darker in the end times, and it's called the days of noah.
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  • And jesus said the last days, the days before his return,
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  • Would be like the days of noah.
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  • So in this dark time, we need to shine as lights.
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  • Because this world as we know it is gonna come to an end.
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  • As the song says, "the end of the world as we know it."
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  • Right?
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  • But when we say the end of the world, we mean the end
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  • Of an evil age.
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  • Satan is described in the bible as the god of this world, the
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  • Prince of the power of the air that works in the hearts of the
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  • Children of disobedience.
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  • The bible says he's blinded people to the truth.
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  • This is why the bible says in 1 john, "love not the world,
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  • Neither the things that are in the world.
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  • For if any man loves the world, the love of the father is not
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  • In him.
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  • For all that is in the world, the lust of the eyes, the pride
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  • Of life, is not of the father, but it's of the world."
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  • And so, don't love this world system.
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  • Instead of the world transforming me, i as a follower
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  • Of jesus should be transforming the world.
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  • And noah was a real world changer.
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  • What is a world changer?
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  • It's someone that doesn't accept the status quo.
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  • They don't want to march lockstep with current culture,
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  • Instead they want to change the culture.
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  • In other words, it's like the difference between a thermostat
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  • And a thermometer.
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  • Now i have a thermostat at home, it's one of these
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  • Smart thermostats.
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  • And, you know, i set it at certain temperatures, and
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  • Then it starts thinking.
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  • "i think this now," and for some reason my thermostat, which
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  • I set at 70 when i go to sleep, feels at four o'clock in
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  • The morning, it should be 75 degrees.
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  • I never told it to do that.
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  • I've had arguments with it.
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  • "what are you doing?
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  • Go back to 70 where i set you."
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  • It goes back to what it wants to go to, but when a thermostat
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  • Works properly, it sets the temperature of the room.
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  • A thermometer, it just tells you what the temperature is.
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  • Now here's my question: are you a thermostat or a thermometer?
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  • When you walk into a room, do you just adjust to the
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  • Temperature or do you change it?
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  • Is the world changing you, or are you changing the world?
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  • Greg: hey everybody, greg laurie here.
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  • I believe we're living in the last days.
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  • Bible prophecies are being fulfilled before our very eyes,
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  • And they're all saying one thing: jesus is coming.
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  • I believe the next event on the prophetic calendar will be the
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  • Rapture of the church when believers will be caught up to
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  • Meet the lord in the air, in a moment, in the twinkling
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  • Of an eye.
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  • So here's what jesus has to say to the church of the last days,
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  • In revelation 3.
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  • He speaks to the church of philadelphia and
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  • He says to them, "you have a little strength, and i have set
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  • Before you an open door that no man can shut."
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  • So, jesus is describing the end-times church as a sick
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  • Person coming back to life, a person who's returning
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  • To health again.
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  • And then he says, "i've opened a door for you."
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  • In the bible, the idea of a door being open speaks
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  • Of opportunity.
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  • The apostle paul talked about, "a door was open for him by the
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  • Lord to preach the gospel."
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  • So god will open doors for you.
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  • Listen, only god can open the door, only you can walk through
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  • The door.
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  • There are some things only god can do, some things only
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  • I can do.
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  • You might say, "oh no, god does everything."
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  • No, actually, he doesn't.
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  • Only god can forgive sin, only i can repent of my sin.
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  • Only god can open the door, only i can walk through the door that
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  • He opens.
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  • Open doors in conversations.
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  • Open doors among friends and family to speak for your faith.
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  • Let's get the word of god out, we have opportunities galore.
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  • The objective of christians should not be to isolate,
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  • It should be to permeate and infiltrate.
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  • Jesus said, "go into all the world and preach the gospel."
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  • Let's do that, because the door is wide open.
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  • Greg: look at hebrews 11,
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  • Verse 7: "by faith noah, being
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  • Divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly
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  • Fear," or reverence.
  • 00:12:11.863 --> 00:12:13.431
  • "he prepared an ark to the saving of his household, by
  • 00:12:13.431 --> 00:12:16.067
  • Which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness
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  • Which is according to faith."
  • 00:12:19.571 --> 00:12:22.340
  • This would take a supreme act of faith to build a boat when it
  • 00:12:22.340 --> 00:12:25.176
  • Had never rained before.
  • 00:12:25.176 --> 00:12:27.512
  • Noah had never heard the song, "rain drops keep falling
  • 00:12:27.512 --> 00:12:31.049
  • On my head."
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  • Right, never heard it.
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  • Because no rain drops had ever fallen.
  • 00:12:33.752 --> 00:12:36.454
  • At this point, in the book of genesis, there was sort of this
  • 00:12:36.454 --> 00:12:39.891
  • Water canopy over the earth, it was sort of
  • 00:12:39.891 --> 00:12:42.961
  • A terrarium-like environment.
  • 00:12:42.961 --> 00:12:44.496
  • Beautiful, lush, green, and now god's gonna send rain, so he
  • 00:12:44.496 --> 00:12:49.367
  • Says to noah: "i want you to build a boat or an ark."
  • 00:12:49.367 --> 00:12:53.438
  • And in one of the greatest practical acts of faith in all
  • 00:12:53.438 --> 00:12:56.141
  • Of history, it's when noah cut down that first tree to build
  • 00:12:56.141 --> 00:13:01.112
  • This ark.
  • 00:13:01.112 --> 00:13:02.580
  • And by the way, the bible doesn't tell us he was a ship
  • 00:13:02.580 --> 00:13:06.518
  • Builder or a carpenter.
  • 00:13:06.518 --> 00:13:09.087
  • Reminding us that god often calls unqualified people
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  • To do his work.
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  • Think about it.
  • 00:13:14.425 --> 00:13:15.927
  • He calls us to do unexpected things.
  • 00:13:15.927 --> 00:13:19.597
  • Because we didn't ever plan on doing that, he calls us to leave
  • 00:13:19.597 --> 00:13:22.300
  • Our comfort zones and do what he leads us to do.
  • 00:13:22.300 --> 00:13:27.272
  • As an example, i never aspired to be a preacher.
  • 00:13:27.272 --> 00:13:29.641
  • And some of you are thinking, "and maybe you should have not
  • 00:13:29.641 --> 00:13:31.776
  • Become one."
  • 00:13:31.776 --> 00:13:33.878
  • Well, i had a different plan for my life.
  • 00:13:33.878 --> 00:13:37.515
  • I was 16 years old and my goal was to be a cartoonist and my
  • 00:13:37.515 --> 00:13:41.419
  • Backup plan was to open a pet store.
  • 00:13:41.419 --> 00:13:43.855
  • That's it.
  • 00:13:43.855 --> 00:13:45.390
  • But i came to christ at the age of 17; the lord changed the
  • 00:13:45.390 --> 00:13:49.093
  • Trajectory of my life and he called me to preach and do what
  • 00:13:49.093 --> 00:13:54.165
  • I'm doing now, but it was very unexpected, so god does not call
  • 00:13:54.165 --> 00:13:58.069
  • The qualified, he qualifies the called.
  • 00:13:58.069 --> 00:14:01.573
  • God can do extraordinary things to ordinary people who are
  • 00:14:01.573 --> 00:14:04.909
  • Willing to leave their comfort zone and obey the lord.
  • 00:14:04.909 --> 00:14:08.379
  • Will you be one of those people?
  • 00:14:08.379 --> 00:14:10.949
  • Right?
  • 00:14:10.949 --> 00:14:14.285
  • Remember this: the ark was built by amateurs and the titanic was
  • 00:14:14.285 --> 00:14:18.990
  • Built by professionals.
  • 00:14:18.990 --> 00:14:23.061
  • Noah models for us what a last days believer should be;
  • 00:14:23.061 --> 00:14:26.898
  • He builds this massive boat.
  • 00:14:26.898 --> 00:14:28.499
  • Now, let's see if we can identify some principles
  • 00:14:28.499 --> 00:14:30.668
  • From his life.
  • 00:14:30.668 --> 00:14:32.036
  • If you're taking notes, here's point number one: god revealed
  • 00:14:32.036 --> 00:14:35.240
  • Secrets to noah.
  • 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:37.408
  • God revealed secrets to noah.
  • 00:14:37.408 --> 00:14:38.977
  • Hebrews 11:7, "he was divinely warned."
  • 00:14:38.977 --> 00:14:42.413
  • God showed him what was coming when no one else knew about it.
  • 00:14:42.413 --> 00:14:47.352
  • And god speaks to us as well, listen to this: christians know
  • 00:14:47.352 --> 00:14:50.021
  • Things the world does not know.
  • 00:14:50.021 --> 00:14:53.391
  • It's interesting when paul speaks of the rapture, he says,
  • 00:14:53.391 --> 00:14:56.828
  • "behold, i show you a mystery.
  • 00:14:56.828 --> 00:14:59.364
  • We shall not all sleep, but we will be changed in a moment in
  • 00:14:59.364 --> 00:15:02.867
  • The twinkling of an eye."
  • 00:15:02.867 --> 00:15:04.202
  • It's a mystery.
  • 00:15:04.202 --> 00:15:05.570
  • It's not a mystery to us, because we know what it means,
  • 00:15:05.570 --> 00:15:08.773
  • But it's a mystery to non-believers.
  • 00:15:08.773 --> 00:15:11.376
  • People look around on our world right now and they think,
  • 00:15:11.376 --> 00:15:13.578
  • "what on earth is happening?
  • 00:15:13.578 --> 00:15:15.213
  • Why is culture collapsing?
  • 00:15:15.213 --> 00:15:17.782
  • Why is there expansion of government control?
  • 00:15:17.782 --> 00:15:21.219
  • Why are people so depraved doing such horrible things as they
  • 00:15:21.219 --> 00:15:25.056
  • Do today?"
  • 00:15:25.056 --> 00:15:26.424
  • But we understand because we know we're living in
  • 00:15:26.424 --> 00:15:29.027
  • The end-times.
  • 00:15:29.027 --> 00:15:30.361
  • We know we're living in the last days.
  • 00:15:30.361 --> 00:15:32.697
  • We know that man is bad and god is good, and judgment is
  • 00:15:32.697 --> 00:15:37.168
  • Ultimately coming to planet earth.
  • 00:15:37.168 --> 00:15:39.203
  • We know it will get worse before it gets better, but we also know
  • 00:15:39.203 --> 00:15:43.141
  • Christ is coming back and will right every wrong.
  • 00:15:43.141 --> 00:15:46.210
  • We've read the last page of the bible and we know we win in
  • 00:15:46.210 --> 00:15:50.214
  • The end, right?
  • 00:15:50.214 --> 00:15:51.716
  • Bringing me to my next point, number two, noah had great
  • 00:15:51.716 --> 00:15:58.556
  • Reverence for god.
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  • As you wait for the return of the lord, you should live
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  • With reverence toward god.
  • 00:16:03.995 --> 00:16:06.030
  • First john tells us, "he that has this hope," that is the hope
  • 00:16:06.030 --> 00:16:09.400
  • Of the lord's return, "purifies himself even as he is pure."
  • 00:16:09.400 --> 00:16:14.038
  • What does that mean?
  • 00:16:14.038 --> 00:16:15.373
  • It means if i really believe jesus is coming, it should
  • 00:16:15.373 --> 00:16:17.775
  • Affect me in the way that i live.
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  • It should affect me in the decisions i make.
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  • Bring an awareness of his eminent return.
  • 00:16:23.548 --> 00:16:28.219
  • To fear god does not mean i'm afraid god's gonna hurt me
  • 00:16:28.219 --> 00:16:31.789
  • Or hit me.
  • 00:16:31.789 --> 00:16:33.291
  • It means that i reverence him, i honor him, i have a respect for
  • 00:16:33.291 --> 00:16:38.663
  • Him, and that's what noah had.
  • 00:16:38.663 --> 00:16:42.900
  • And then god sent a promise, or an indication of a promise,
  • 00:16:42.900 --> 00:16:46.371
  • After the flood, it was a rainbow.
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  • After the judgment came on the earth through the flood,
  • 00:16:48.973 --> 00:16:52.710
  • The lord put a rainbow in the sky and he said, "look at this
  • 00:16:52.710 --> 00:16:55.046
  • Rainbow, noah.
  • 00:16:55.046 --> 00:16:56.914
  • It's a reminder i'll never judge the earth like this again."
  • 00:16:56.914 --> 00:17:00.885
  • So every time you see a rainbow, it's a reminder that god keeps
  • 00:17:00.885 --> 00:17:04.655
  • His promises.
  • 00:17:04.655 --> 00:17:05.990
  • Have you ever noticed it's really hard to photograph
  • 00:17:05.990 --> 00:17:07.558
  • A rainbow?
  • 00:17:07.558 --> 00:17:09.127
  • I love rainbows.
  • 00:17:09.127 --> 00:17:10.461
  • I'll see one, i'll say, "cathe, look at the rainbow."
  • 00:17:10.461 --> 00:17:12.563
  • Then we'll drive, pull the car over, i'll jump out, pull out my
  • 00:17:12.563 --> 00:17:15.299
  • Phone, hold it up [imitating camera shutter].
  • 00:17:15.299 --> 00:17:18.169
  • Then i look at the picture, it's so sad.
  • 00:17:18.169 --> 00:17:21.072
  • It's like weh, weh, weh.
  • 00:17:21.072 --> 00:17:24.208
  • What happened to the rainbow?
  • 00:17:24.208 --> 00:17:25.710
  • You can't photograph one very easily, can you?
  • 00:17:25.710 --> 00:17:28.212
  • It's almost as though the lord is saying, "put down your stupid
  • 00:17:28.212 --> 00:17:30.848
  • Phone and just enjoy it.
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  • And be reminded that i keep my promises."
  • 00:17:33.518 --> 00:17:35.720
  • So he made that promise to noah, and he's made that promise to
  • 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:40.191
  • Us as well.
  • 00:17:40.191 --> 00:17:41.526
  • Point number three: noah walked with god when no one else did.
  • 00:17:41.526 --> 00:17:44.996
  • He walked with god when no one else did.
  • 00:17:44.996 --> 00:17:47.331
  • Genesis 6:9 says, "noah walked with god."
  • 00:17:47.331 --> 00:17:51.335
  • The prophet amos gives us a key as to what it means to
  • 00:17:51.335 --> 00:17:54.972
  • Walk with god.
  • 00:17:54.972 --> 00:17:56.307
  • He says, "can two walk together, except they have agreed?"
  • 00:17:56.307 --> 00:18:00.378
  • So the idea is you stay in harmony, to walk with god is to
  • 00:18:00.378 --> 00:18:04.215
  • Be in harmony with god; think of a tandem bicycle.
  • 00:18:04.215 --> 00:18:07.552
  • You know where two people ride the bike and you have to pedal
  • 00:18:07.552 --> 00:18:10.121
  • In the same direction.
  • 00:18:10.121 --> 00:18:11.656
  • If one person has a foot on the brake, it's not gonna work very
  • 00:18:11.656 --> 00:18:15.126
  • Well, right?
  • 00:18:15.126 --> 00:18:16.494
  • So when i'm walking with god, i stay in sync with god, i don't
  • 00:18:16.494 --> 00:18:18.830
  • Run ahead of god, i don't fall behind god.
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  • If the lord turns to the right, i turn to the right.
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  • If he stops, i stop.
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  • That's what it's like to walk with god.
  • 00:18:24.769 --> 00:18:27.338
  • Years ago i was over in maui and i was scuba diving.
  • 00:18:27.338 --> 00:18:30.541
  • And so we decided to dive off on a little island called molokini,
  • 00:18:30.541 --> 00:18:34.512
  • And the dive is 100 feet down.
  • 00:18:34.512 --> 00:18:36.781
  • Any scuba divers out there?
  • 00:18:36.781 --> 00:18:38.749
  • Any scuba divers?
  • 00:18:38.749 --> 00:18:40.118
  • Okay, whatever.
  • 00:18:40.118 --> 00:18:42.587
  • There was one, yes.
  • 00:18:42.587 --> 00:18:44.555
  • Well, two, good, yeah.
  • 00:18:44.555 --> 00:18:46.591
  • A hundred feet's pretty deep, don't you think?
  • 00:18:46.591 --> 00:18:48.326
  • It is for me.
  • 00:18:48.326 --> 00:18:49.894
  • I usually go 30 feet or so, 100 feet.
  • 00:18:49.894 --> 00:18:52.597
  • So i was really stressed out.
  • 00:18:52.597 --> 00:18:54.699
  • And as i was descending to the bottom, i was breathing so hard,
  • 00:18:54.699 --> 00:18:58.336
  • My friend said, "all these bubbles were coming out
  • 00:18:58.336 --> 00:19:00.605
  • Of my tank."
  • 00:19:00.605 --> 00:19:01.939
  • Everyone else, a few bubbles...
  • 00:19:01.939 --> 00:19:05.810
  • And we finally got to the bottom, i looked at
  • 00:19:05.810 --> 00:19:08.379
  • My little cage.
  • 00:19:08.379 --> 00:19:09.747
  • I hardly got any air left.
  • 00:19:09.747 --> 00:19:11.415
  • And i looked over at my instructor, and i did this...
  • 00:19:11.415 --> 00:19:14.418
  • Which means i'm out of air.
  • 00:19:14.418 --> 00:19:16.187
  • Through the mask, i could actually see him roll his
  • 00:19:16.187 --> 00:19:18.856
  • Eyes like.
  • 00:19:18.856 --> 00:19:21.659
  • So he gestures.
  • 00:19:21.659 --> 00:19:23.227
  • I swim over, he points, and he told us about this ahead of time
  • 00:19:23.227 --> 00:19:26.998
  • On the back of--he had two tanks, we had one.
  • 00:19:26.998 --> 00:19:29.634
  • He had something called an octopus, not a literal octopus,
  • 00:19:29.634 --> 00:19:32.703
  • But another regulator attached to a shorter hose that was on
  • 00:19:32.703 --> 00:19:37.408
  • His tank so if someone lost air, you could get air.
  • 00:19:37.408 --> 00:19:40.111
  • So i took my regulator out, i put his regulator in with the
  • 00:19:40.111 --> 00:19:45.349
  • Shortened hose, and everywhere he went, i went.
  • 00:19:45.349 --> 00:19:49.787
  • And the hose was short, so i was on a short leash.
  • 00:19:49.787 --> 00:19:53.357
  • So he would go up a little bit, and i would be doing little
  • 00:19:53.357 --> 00:19:56.761
  • Tiny, you know, strokes, and he'd go down, i'd do little tiny
  • 00:19:56.761 --> 00:19:59.964
  • Strokes, i'm just kinda floating over him, hoping i don't die.
  • 00:19:59.964 --> 00:20:04.569
  • But i had a choice, stay in sync with my instructor, or drown,
  • 00:20:04.569 --> 00:20:09.173
  • And i preferred life, and we made it out of there okay.
  • 00:20:09.173 --> 00:20:13.110
  • But the point is, that should be us and god.
  • 00:20:13.110 --> 00:20:15.279
  • Where the lord goes, i go.
  • 00:20:15.279 --> 00:20:17.081
  • And i stay close to him.
  • 00:20:17.081 --> 00:20:19.550
  • Noah walked with god.
  • 00:20:19.550 --> 00:20:21.185
  • Number five, noah was a witness for god.
  • 00:20:21.185 --> 00:20:24.188
  • He was a witness for god.
  • 00:20:24.188 --> 00:20:26.057
  • He's identified in 2 peter 2:5 as "a preacher
  • 00:20:26.057 --> 00:20:28.693
  • Of righteousness."
  • 00:20:28.693 --> 00:20:30.194
  • A preacher of righteousness.
  • 00:20:30.194 --> 00:20:32.096
  • And you know what?
  • 00:20:32.096 --> 00:20:33.464
  • He didn't reach that many people.
  • 00:20:33.464 --> 00:20:35.766
  • He pretty much reached only his family.
  • 00:20:35.766 --> 00:20:38.669
  • Hebrews 11:7 says, "by faith noah, being divinely warned of
  • 00:20:38.669 --> 00:20:42.039
  • Things not yet seen, moved with godly reverence, prepared an ark
  • 00:20:42.039 --> 00:20:45.509
  • To the saving of his household."
  • 00:20:45.509 --> 00:20:48.212
  • But hey, he did reach his family.
  • 00:20:48.212 --> 00:20:50.715
  • And i say to you, don't lose your family.
  • 00:20:50.715 --> 00:20:54.685
  • Husbands, men, fathers, be a man of god.
  • 00:20:54.685 --> 00:20:58.322
  • Take time for your children.
  • 00:20:58.322 --> 00:20:59.690
  • Take time for your wife.
  • 00:20:59.690 --> 00:21:01.592
  • Take time for your grandchildren.
  • 00:21:01.592 --> 00:21:03.761
  • Mothers, wives, be a woman of god.
  • 00:21:03.761 --> 00:21:07.865
  • Be a godly grandmother.
  • 00:21:07.865 --> 00:21:09.567
  • Be there, help your offspring come to know jesus christ,
  • 00:21:09.567 --> 00:21:13.971
  • That's mission number one.
  • 00:21:13.971 --> 00:21:15.973
  • Reach your family.
  • 00:21:15.973 --> 00:21:17.341
  • And it's so sad when i see christian homes where the kids
  • 00:21:17.341 --> 00:21:19.744
  • Have turned away from the lord because the parents have been
  • 00:21:19.744 --> 00:21:22.613
  • Too preoccupied with themselves and have no time for them.
  • 00:21:22.613 --> 00:21:27.618
  • The best thing you can spend on children is not money,
  • 00:21:27.618 --> 00:21:30.554
  • It's time, and lots of it.
  • 00:21:30.554 --> 00:21:33.157
  • And noah reached his family.
  • 00:21:33.157 --> 00:21:34.892
  • Let me contrast noah with lot.
  • 00:21:34.892 --> 00:21:37.461
  • Lot's a guy in the old testament, also in the book
  • 00:21:37.461 --> 00:21:41.032
  • Of genesis.
  • 00:21:41.032 --> 00:21:42.400
  • He became a leader in sodom and gomorrah.
  • 00:21:42.400 --> 00:21:44.268
  • He was a wicked man.
  • 00:21:44.268 --> 00:21:45.636
  • Or excuse me, i should say a compromised man, he was
  • 00:21:45.636 --> 00:21:48.339
  • Identified as a believer and a righteous man, but he
  • 00:21:48.339 --> 00:21:51.042
  • Was very compromised.
  • 00:21:51.042 --> 00:21:52.743
  • And one day the lord said, "i want you out of this city and
  • 00:21:52.743 --> 00:21:55.479
  • Bring your family with you."
  • 00:21:55.479 --> 00:21:57.081
  • And the bible says that "when lot told his family that
  • 00:21:57.081 --> 00:21:59.617
  • Judgment was coming, they laughed in his face."
  • 00:21:59.617 --> 00:22:02.286
  • Contrast him with noah.
  • 00:22:02.286 --> 00:22:04.288
  • When noah spoke, his family moved.
  • 00:22:04.288 --> 00:22:06.157
  • When lot spoke, his family laughed.
  • 00:22:06.157 --> 00:22:09.460
  • Because no one listens to a compromiser.
  • 00:22:09.460 --> 00:22:12.930
  • No one cares what the compromiser says.
  • 00:22:12.930 --> 00:22:15.266
  • You have to live it before you can preach it.
  • 00:22:15.266 --> 00:22:17.868
  • Not perfectly, not flawlessly, none of us do.
  • 00:22:17.868 --> 00:22:21.172
  • But when you set that godly example and you speak, your
  • 00:22:21.172 --> 00:22:24.208
  • Children will listen, people will listen.
  • 00:22:24.208 --> 00:22:26.811
  • And noah did that, but lot did not.
  • 00:22:26.811 --> 00:22:29.680
  • So they left that city and judgment came.
  • 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:34.852
  • But world changers draw their families to christ.
  • 00:22:34.852 --> 00:22:38.723
  • So let me wrap this up and conclude.
  • 00:22:38.723 --> 00:22:41.258
  • You wanna be a real rebel?
  • 00:22:41.258 --> 00:22:44.061
  • Be a true follower of jesus christ.
  • 00:22:44.061 --> 00:22:47.098
  • Makes me laugh today, "i'm a rebel."
  • 00:22:47.098 --> 00:22:49.133
  • And everyone says the same stuff.
  • 00:22:49.133 --> 00:22:51.969
  • They parrot the same expressions.
  • 00:22:51.969 --> 00:22:55.373
  • Effectively, they march in lockstep and they have a form
  • 00:22:55.373 --> 00:22:59.877
  • Of groupthink and they call themselves rebels.
  • 00:22:59.877 --> 00:23:02.880
  • That's not rebels.
  • 00:23:02.880 --> 00:23:04.215
  • That's not a rebel.
  • 00:23:04.215 --> 00:23:05.549
  • A rebel is someone that says, "i'm not doing that.
  • 00:23:05.549 --> 00:23:08.018
  • I'm doing what god says."
  • 00:23:08.018 --> 00:23:09.353
  • You want to be a real rebel?
  • 00:23:09.353 --> 00:23:11.055
  • Follow christ.
  • 00:23:11.055 --> 00:23:12.390
  • You don't even need a black motorcycle jacket.
  • 00:23:12.390 --> 00:23:17.561
  • And you don't need a wallet with a chain on it, because bikers
  • 00:23:17.561 --> 00:23:20.865
  • Favor those.
  • 00:23:20.865 --> 00:23:22.199
  • Who would steal a wallet from a biker anyway?
  • 00:23:22.199 --> 00:23:24.735
  • But, i digress.
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  • That's a true rebel in today's culture.
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  • So let's wrap it up.
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  • A world changer is someone who wants to change the culture.
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  • They think for themselves, they do what is right, they follow
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  • Christ, and they affect their surroundings more than their
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  • Surroundings affect them.
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  • How do you live or how should you live as a last
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  • Days believer?
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  • Have reverence for god, number one.
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  • Number two, walk with god.
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  • Number three, be a witness for god.
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  • Let me go back to one more passage.
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  • Here's how jesus described the last days in matthew 24.
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  • He says, "the arrival of the son of man will take place in times
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  • Like noah's.
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  • Before the great flood everyone was carrying on as usual, having
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  • A good time right up to the day noah boarded the ark.
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  • They knew nothing--until the flood swept everything away."
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  • Then jesus says, "the son of man's arrival," he's referring
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  • To himself.
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  • Basically saying, "when i return, it'll be just
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  • Like that."
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  • "two men will be working in the field, one will be taken, and
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  • The other left; two women will be grinding at the mill--
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  • One will be taken, and the other left.
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  • So stay awake, be alert.
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  • You have no idea what day your master will show up."
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  • Wow, just like the days of noah.
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  • And i wonder right now, are you alert and are you awake and are
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  • You ready for the lord's return?
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  • If christ were to come back today, and he could, would you
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  • Be ready to meet the lord?
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  • Or would you be one of the ones that jesus said would be
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  • Left behind?
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  • You don't want to be that person, but that can all change.
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  • You can make a decision right now to get right with god and
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  • He'll forgive you of your sin and you can live with confidence
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  • Knowing that if christ comes in your lifetime, you'll be ready
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  • To meet him, and also know that when death comes, and it will
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  • Come, that you'll be ready to go into the presence of the lord.
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  • You don't have to be afraid when jesus christ is living
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  • In your life.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • I've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is, is 2,000 years ago, god sent his son,
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  • Jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin and then to
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  • Rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready to come into
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  • Your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die, you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you from this
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  • Moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven has
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  • Heard you, and i want to send
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  • You a new testament
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  • To start reading.
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  • Greg: so this is--these are the remains of someone's home, and
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  • We have a team of people here that are volunteers.
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  • Many of these people are from harvest working
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  • With samaritan's purse.
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  • So we come here, and we do these things for these people in the
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  • Name of jesus christ to let them know that there are people
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  • That care about them.
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  • And we share the gospel with people and help people see
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  • Their need for jesus.
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  • You know, when you're down, when you're hurting, when tragedy
  • 00:26:59.950 --> 00:27:03.354
  • Is hit, a lot of times you're more open to hearing the gospel
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  • Than maybe under normal circumstances when
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  • Things are going well.
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  • And i found that sometimes in the worst of circumstances, you
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  • Can see amazing things happen because people open their hearts
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  • To god and see their real need.
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  • ♪♪♪
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