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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - How To Live A Successful Christian Life | June 4, 2025
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- Greg laurie: the devil knows his days are numbered.
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- Therefore, his objective is to wreak as much havoc as he
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- Can until that day.
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- And we too, as christians, knowing the lord's return is
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- Near, should be doing as much good as we can, and reaching as
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- Many people as we can with the gospel until that day.
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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: we all remember the day that jesus christ
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- Came into our life, right?
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- It's a big day, a day you don't forget.
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- It was like we went from darkness to light.
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- It's like we went from black and white to color.
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- I remember, i'm old enough to remember when color television
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- Came out.
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- Okay?
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- I know some of you have never heard this before,
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- But to used to watch black and white television and the tv sets
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- Were gigantic boxes.
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- There was no remote control.
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- If you wanted to change the channel, you had to walk up
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- There and turn to one of three channels that you could
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- Watch, right?
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- And then one day, color tv came out, it was like a revelation.
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- We couldn't believe it.
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- We've been fiddling around with rabbit ears on top of black and
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- White tvs and now it's color television.
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- Well, that's what it's like when you come to christ, you go
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- Into this whole new world, sin no longer is controlling you as
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- It once did.
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- Your addictions fell away, your depression cleared, your guilt
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- Was gone and there was an inward peace and a joy you did not
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- Previously have and you opened up the bible and this is like
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- The user's manual of life you've been searching for.
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- Here it is.
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- I remember as a 17-year-old boy reading the bible for the first
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- Time, and it spoke to me in my young life, and it still speaks
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- To me now in my forties because, plus a few more years, but it
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- Was relevant then it's relevant now.
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- And then of course, prayer, what an amazing thing it was to pray,
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- And know that there was a god in heaven who listened to our
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- Prayers and cared about what we were facing, and would answer
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- Our prayers.
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- Do you remember your first answered prayer?
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- I remember mine.
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- I was a brand-new believer, 17 years old, i'd accepted
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- Christ and my grandmother found out, and i lived with her and my
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- Grandfather for a number of years when i was a little boy.
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- And she said, greg, i wanna get you a brand-new bible.
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- A nice leather bible.
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- Funny thing that very day i prayed, lord, i would like
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- A nice leather bible.
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- I didn't have any money.
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- I had this cheap paperback one.
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- I wanted a proper bible, you know, with ribbons and all the
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- Cool stuff that bibles have.
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- And that was my first answered prayer.
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- So amazing.
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- And i remember the first time i went to church, how life
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- Changing it was for me to be in this environment of people, of
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- All ages, different cultures, different races, men and women,
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- Young people, older people, worshiping the lord together.
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- And this is what happens when we come to christ, and we say, man,
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- I'm never gonna go back to that other life again.
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- This is the way i'm going to live.
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- And from this point on it's blue skies, singing birds, sunshine,
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- Butterflies and maybe even a unicorn.
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- I don't know, it's looking good.
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- And then inexplicably you started having some issues.
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- It was like you would take one step forward, and you would take
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- Two steps back, and you found you were falling into the same
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- Sinful patterns again.
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- In fact, if you were to describe it, you might liken it to
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- Wandering in a wilderness, or being in a desert, listen, that
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- Can change if you want it to.
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- And that's what we're about to look at together, because the
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- Book of joshua is a story of the end of the wilderness,
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- Wanderings of the israelites as they enter into the
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- Promised land.
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- It didn't take long to get from point a to point b, to get
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- From egypt to israel.
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- It could have taken a month, two months on the outside if they
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- Took their time.
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- But 40 years?
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- No, they're going around and around in circles, and they had
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- Everything they needed.
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- God provided for them.
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- He delivered them from the power of pharaoh.
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- They prayed that god would send someone to do so.
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- And the lord raised up moses who led them out and the plagues
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- Came upon egypt, and they were delivered, and the lord gave
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- Them the coolest gps system of all time, a fire by night,
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- A cloud by day.
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- So when the cloud moved, you moved.
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- When the cloud stopped, you stopped.
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- When the fire showed up and moved, you moved with it.
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- And he fed them every day, this amazing substance called manna.
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- It's described as the food of angels.
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- The bible tells us it was sweet to the taste.
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- And another verse says it was flaky like frost.
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- It comes from the hebrew words, "frosto flaco."
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- You may have heard of frosty flakes, right?
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- No, not really.
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- But this amazing substance outside of their tent
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- Every single morning, they could scoop it up and eat it.
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- They had everything they needed in life, but they soon began to
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- Complain against god, and take what he had given them
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- For granted.
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- And we do the same, don't we?
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- We take these blessings of god for granted and we find
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- Ourselves in a wilderness.
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- And so commenting on what this means to us, especially as
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- Believers living in the last days.
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- Paul writes this in 1 corinthians 10, when he says
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- These things happen to them.
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- That's the israelites as examples to us.
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- They were written down to warn us, listen, who live at the end
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- Of the age.
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- So these words are for last days believers.
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- And he goes on to say, "if you think you're standing strong,
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- Be careful not to fall.
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- The temptations in your life are no other from what
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- Others experience.
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- But god is faithful.
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- He will not allow that temptation to be more than you
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- Can stand.
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- And when you're tempted, he'll show you a way out, so you
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- May endure."
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- Very important words.
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- So these things are written for examples to us who are living in
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- The end times, so we can learn about how to possess our
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- Possessions and how to win in this spiritual battle now.
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- So we get into jocks where there's a lot of war in there,
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- Some bloodshed, some big battles that we see.
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- And we wonder why is such a place given in the word of god
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- To a record of the military victories, and sometimes defeats
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- Of this army in the conquest of canaan?
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- Answer, because we too are at war.
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- Right now, we're in a big war.
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- More than a political war, though it includes that.
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- More than a cultural war, though it includes that as well.
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- It's a spiritual war.
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- It's been said, conversion has made our hearts a battlefield.
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- In ephesians 6, paul says, "we're not wrestling against
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- Flesh and blood, but against principalities, and powers,
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- Against spiritual might in high places."
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- As a modern paraphrase puts it, we're not in some weekend war
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- That we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple
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- Of hours.
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- This is for keeps.
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- It's a life or death fight to finish against the devil and
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- His angels.
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- So true.
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- And we're living in a culture that opposes what we believe.
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- In many ways, it's hostile to what we believe, especially as
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- Followers of christ.
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- And guess who else knows we're in a battle, and guess who else
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- Knows we're in the last days, the devil, because revelation
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- 12, speaking of the devil says, "he's come down to you in great
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- Anger knowing he has a little time.
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- The devil knows his days are numbered.
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- Therefore, his objective is to wreak as much havoc as he can
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- Until that day.
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- And we too, as christians, knowing the lord's return is
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- Near, should be doing as much good as we can, and reaching as
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- Many people as we can with the gospel until that day.
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- So look, this is not a choice of fighting, or not fighting.
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- You're either gonna fight, or you're gonna lose.
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- You're either gonna gain ground, or you're gonna lose ground.
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- You're either going to advance, or you're gonna retreat.
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- Now, why did most of these israelites not make it into
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- The promised land?
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- They focus their attention on the obstacles instead
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- Of their objective.
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- When you fix your attention on the obstacles rather than
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- The objective, fear will always eclipse your faith.
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- It's up there on the screen.
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- When you focus on the obstacles rather than the objective, fear
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- Will always eclipse your faith.
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- So you have a choice, you can go into the land, you can stay out
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- Of the land.
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- Let's read what happens next.
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- Joshua chapter 1, i'm reading verses 1 to 4 from the
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- New living translation.
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- "after the death of moses the lord's servant, the lord spoke
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- To joshua the son of nun, moses' assistant."
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- King james calls him moses servant, "he said, 'moses my
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- Servant is dead.
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- Therefore, the time has come for you to lead these people, the
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- Israelites, across the jordan river into the land
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- I'm giving them.
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- I promise you what i promised moses.
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- Wherever you set foot, you will be on land i have given you--
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- From the negev wilderness to the south of the lebanon mountains
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- To the north, from the euphrates rivers in the east to the
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- Mediterranean sea and the west, including all the land of
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- The hittites.
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- No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live.
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- For i will be with you as i was with moses.
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- I will not fail you or abandon you."
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- We'll stop there.
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- Are those not powerful words?
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- So if you're taking notes, here's point number one,
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- To succeed in this spiritual life, you must overcome fear
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- And admit you need help and lots of it.
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- Look at how many times god tells joshua to have courage.
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- Verse 6, "be strong and of good courage."
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- Verse 7, "only be strong and very courageous."
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- Verse 9, "have i not commanded you be strong and
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- Of good courage?"
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- Don't be afraid.
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- Why do you think the lord said this so many times to joshua?
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- Probably because he was afraid.
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- There are things that you're scared of.
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- Are you afraid of something right now, is something
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- Terrifying you?
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- Maybe it's a job you've been asked to do.
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- Maybe you're starting your family.
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- Maybe you just got married.
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- Maybe there's some other thing that's frightening you right
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- Now, remember what god said to joshua, joshua 1:5, "i will not
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- Leave you or forsake you."
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- Be strong enough, good courage.
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- And that's his word to him and it's his word to us.
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- Jesus said, don't be afraid.
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- I'm the first and the last i'm the living one.
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- I was dead and i'm alive forever.
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- I hold the keys of death in hades.
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- Don't be afraid.
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- Says jesus.
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- Jesus also says, fear, not little flock for it is your
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- Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
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- Don't let fear cripple you.
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- Paul wrote these words to a young and timid timothy in
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- 2 timothy 1 and 7, "i want to remind you to fan into flames
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- Your spiritual gift god gave you.
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- For god has not given you a spirit of fear,
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- But of power, love, and self-discipline.
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- So don't be ashamed to tell others about our lord."
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- My friend j.d. greer
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- Put it this way and i quote, "courage is the ability
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- To keep going even when you can't see any progress, because
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- You know that god is faithful."
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- Point number two, the way to succeed in this spiritual life
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- Is to be consistent, be consistent.
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- Not just in the big things, but in the little things.
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- Look at verse 1, "after the death of moses, the servant of
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- The lord, it came to pass, the lord spoke to joshua, the son of
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- Nun, moses' assistant," that's pretty accurate, actually.
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- That's new living king james says, "moses servant joshua was
- 00:12:25.710 --> 00:12:30.682
- Like the executive assistant to moses."
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- I don't think he realized that he was effectively being groomed
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- To become the one that would lead the israelites into
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- The promised land.
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- It probably all assumed moses would do that.
- 00:12:42.427 --> 00:12:45.196
- But in fact, god was raising up joshua, and he was a worthy
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- Successor to moses.
- 00:12:49.167 --> 00:12:51.636
- And it's just a reminder that god raises up new people.
- 00:12:51.636 --> 00:12:56.141
- You know, people come and go on the stage.
- 00:12:56.141 --> 00:12:59.210
- Our job is to be faithful in our generation.
- 00:12:59.210 --> 00:13:03.448
- Acts 13:36 is, "after david had done the will of god in his own
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- Generation, he died and was buried with his ancestors.
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- After he had been faithful in his own generation."
- 00:13:11.956 --> 00:13:14.993
- I have my generation and a new generation comes.
- 00:13:14.993 --> 00:13:17.896
- One day you'll read maybe in the paper or news feed.
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- I don't know if it'll make the news, greg laurie died.
- 00:13:20.498 --> 00:13:23.802
- Don't you believe a word of it.
- 00:13:23.802 --> 00:13:26.337
- At that moment, i'll be more alive than i have ever
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- Been, right?
- 00:13:28.740 --> 00:13:30.375
- But i'm a realist.
- 00:13:30.375 --> 00:13:34.479
- I understand death will come.
- 00:13:34.479 --> 00:13:36.281
- I'm kind of hoping the rapture will come first, lord, are
- 00:13:36.281 --> 00:13:38.917
- You listening?
- 00:13:38.917 --> 00:13:40.285
- That, i prefer that mode of transportation, but whatever it
- 00:13:40.285 --> 00:13:42.954
- Is, my job is to serve the lord faithfully in my generation.
- 00:13:42.954 --> 00:13:47.158
- Then the lord raises up another.
- 00:13:47.158 --> 00:13:49.260
- That's what he always does.
- 00:13:49.260 --> 00:13:50.895
- Some people think they're indispensable.
- 00:13:50.895 --> 00:13:53.698
- Listen, graveyards are filled with indispensable people.
- 00:13:53.698 --> 00:13:58.803
- So just serve god in your generation.
- 00:13:58.803 --> 00:14:03.675
- Greg: you know, the bible says that king david, he served the
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- Purpose of god in his generation, and then
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- He fell asleep.
- 00:14:11.249 --> 00:14:12.617
- By the way, that phrase "to fall asleep" means he died.
- 00:14:12.617 --> 00:14:15.887
- And that phrase is only used of death when it concerns
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- The believer.
- 00:14:18.923 --> 00:14:20.291
- When a believer dies, the bible says they fall asleep, which is
- 00:14:20.291 --> 00:14:22.927
- Kind of a beautiful picture of death when you think about it,
- 00:14:22.927 --> 00:14:26.064
- Because sleeping isn't a bad thing, especially as you
- 00:14:26.064 --> 00:14:29.367
- Get older.
- 00:14:29.367 --> 00:14:30.735
- In fact, when you're older, happy hour is a nap.
- 00:14:30.735 --> 00:14:33.438
- I digress, but david served the purpose of god in
- 00:14:33.438 --> 00:14:38.509
- His generation.
- 00:14:38.509 --> 00:14:39.878
- And here's my question for you, are you serving the purpose of
- 00:14:39.878 --> 00:14:42.814
- God in your generation?
- 00:14:42.814 --> 00:14:45.183
- See, there has to come a moment in our life when we go from
- 00:14:45.183 --> 00:14:49.387
- Money to meaning, from success, to significance,
- 00:14:49.387 --> 00:14:54.492
- From possessions to purpose.
- 00:14:54.492 --> 00:14:56.761
- And what is your purpose?
- 00:14:56.761 --> 00:14:58.229
- It's to serve god's purpose in your generation.
- 00:14:58.229 --> 00:15:02.467
- In other words, to find the will of god and live it out.
- 00:15:02.467 --> 00:15:05.603
- Now, take that phrase, david served the purpose of god in his
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- Generation, and take his name out and put your name in.
- 00:15:10.174 --> 00:15:13.544
- And i'm asking you right now, are you serving god's purpose in
- 00:15:13.544 --> 00:15:17.081
- Your generation and your life?
- 00:15:17.081 --> 00:15:18.850
- Look, our life, we have a date of birth and we have a
- 00:15:18.850 --> 00:15:22.854
- Date of death.
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- We don't know what that date of death will be.
- 00:15:24.222 --> 00:15:26.157
- We don't determine when we're born or when we die.
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- But we have everything to say about the little dash
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- In the middle.
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- Your part is the dash, live the dash well and serve the purpose
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- Of god in your generation.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:15:40.772 --> 00:15:43.675
- Greg: now, god makes this amazing promise to joshua verse
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- 5: "no man will be able to stand before you all the days of your
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- Life; as i was with moses, so i'll be with you.
- 00:15:50.548 --> 00:15:53.551
- I will not leave you or forsake you."
- 00:15:53.551 --> 00:15:56.788
- And just as god was with joshua, god is with you.
- 00:15:56.788 --> 00:16:01.459
- I love how jesus says in matthew 28,
- 00:16:01.459 --> 00:16:05.830
- "lo, i am with you even to the end of the age."
- 00:16:05.830 --> 00:16:10.134
- Okay, that brings me to our third and last point.
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- If you want to succeed spiritually, you must know
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- And keep the word of god.
- 00:16:15.406 --> 00:16:16.941
- Look at joshua 1:8, "this book of the law shall not depart
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- From your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night,
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- That you may observe to do according to all that
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- Is written."
- 00:16:27.452 --> 00:16:28.786
- Underline, all that is written in it.
- 00:16:28.786 --> 00:16:30.621
- "then you will make your way prosperous and you will have
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- Good success."
- 00:16:33.024 --> 00:16:35.760
- What god said to joshua was unprecedented historically,
- 00:16:35.760 --> 00:16:40.732
- Up to this point.
- 00:16:40.732 --> 00:16:42.100
- When god spoke to people, he spoke audibly to them.
- 00:16:42.100 --> 00:16:45.436
- God spoke audibly to noah and told him to build the ark.
- 00:16:45.436 --> 00:16:49.507
- God spoke audibly to abraham and told him to leave for a distant
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- Land he had never been to before.
- 00:16:53.978 --> 00:16:56.914
- God had spoken audibly to moses through a burning bush.
- 00:16:56.914 --> 00:17:00.952
- But now the lord says, i'm gonna speak to you through the book,
- 00:17:00.952 --> 00:17:05.890
- And that is how god speaks to us today.
- 00:17:05.890 --> 00:17:08.026
- I'll be honest, when i talk to people that say god speaks to me
- 00:17:08.026 --> 00:17:11.629
- All the time, i get a little suspicious.
- 00:17:11.629 --> 00:17:14.699
- I'm not so sure, but i know this, he will speak to you
- 00:17:14.699 --> 00:17:17.902
- Through this book, right?
- 00:17:17.902 --> 00:17:20.271
- Jesus said, "low in the volume of the book.
- 00:17:20.271 --> 00:17:23.107
- I have come, it is written of me."
- 00:17:23.107 --> 00:17:24.675
- God will speak to you through the bible.
- 00:17:24.675 --> 00:17:27.645
- But what should i do?
- 00:17:27.645 --> 00:17:28.980
- I should meditate in it, day and night, meditate in it.
- 00:17:28.980 --> 00:17:33.384
- Now, what does that mean?
- 00:17:33.384 --> 00:17:34.986
- When we use the word meditate biblically, we're not using it
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- In the same way they might use it in eastern religions.
- 00:17:37.989 --> 00:17:41.859
- For them to meditate is to empty one's mind and sit on a yoga mat
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- Wearing lululemon clothes.
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- I'm not sure what, but you know, that's not what we're doing.
- 00:17:49.133 --> 00:17:53.104
- In the bible.
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- To meditate means to contemplate, to ponder,
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- To consider these things.
- 00:17:58.810 --> 00:18:01.979
- Another way to translate the word meditate is to mutter,
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- To mutter or to speak aloud.
- 00:18:05.917 --> 00:18:08.453
- Sometimes it helps to read the bible out loud, because you
- 00:18:08.453 --> 00:18:12.090
- Know, you can read verses and it doesn't penetrate your brain.
- 00:18:12.090 --> 00:18:15.693
- Someone might say i read ten chapters of the bible today.
- 00:18:15.693 --> 00:18:18.896
- Really?
- 00:18:18.896 --> 00:18:20.264
- Wow.
- 00:18:20.264 --> 00:18:21.599
- What were they about?
- 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:22.967
- I have no idea.
- 00:18:22.967 --> 00:18:24.802
- I'd rather read ten verses with understanding than ten chapters
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- Without it, right?
- 00:18:29.073 --> 00:18:30.441
- So that's where meditation comes in.
- 00:18:30.441 --> 00:18:32.577
- You think about it, you consider it and you hide it in your
- 00:18:32.577 --> 00:18:36.514
- Heart, you memorize it.
- 00:18:36.514 --> 00:18:39.183
- The bible says, "your word have i hid in my heart that i might
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- Not sin against you."
- 00:18:42.120 --> 00:18:44.522
- Don't tell me you can't memorize things.
- 00:18:44.522 --> 00:18:46.524
- I can't, it's hard.
- 00:18:46.524 --> 00:18:47.859
- You memorize lines from films, lyrics to songs, sports scores
- 00:18:47.859 --> 00:18:54.031
- Going back decades.
- 00:18:54.031 --> 00:18:55.766
- And you tell me you don't have any bandwidth in your brain to
- 00:18:55.766 --> 00:18:58.736
- Memorize the word of god?
- 00:18:58.736 --> 00:19:00.104
- Of course you do.
- 00:19:00.104 --> 00:19:01.973
- And in psalm 1, it says, "blessed or happy is the man
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- That does not walk in the council of the ungodly, or stand
- 00:19:05.209 --> 00:19:08.646
- In the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of the scornful; but
- 00:19:08.646 --> 00:19:11.883
- His delight is in the law of the lord, or the word of the lord.
- 00:19:11.883 --> 00:19:15.553
- And in it, he meditates day and night, notice, day and night,
- 00:19:15.553 --> 00:19:21.025
- And he'll be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water.
- 00:19:21.025 --> 00:19:24.795
- He'll bring forth fruit and his leave shall not wither."
- 00:19:24.795 --> 00:19:28.266
- I memorized that when i was 19 years old and i still remember
- 00:19:28.266 --> 00:19:32.036
- It today.
- 00:19:32.036 --> 00:19:33.371
- It's a great place to hide god's word in your mind and heart.
- 00:19:33.371 --> 00:19:36.407
- You know, you can carry the bible in your purse or your
- 00:19:36.407 --> 00:19:39.377
- Briefcase or your man bag.
- 00:19:39.377 --> 00:19:41.846
- But i mean, what do they call those now?
- 00:19:41.846 --> 00:19:45.983
- Immerse?
- 00:19:45.983 --> 00:19:47.318
- I'm not sure what it is, but the best place to hide the word
- 00:19:47.318 --> 00:19:50.054
- Of god is in your heart.
- 00:19:50.054 --> 00:19:52.356
- Meditate in it, day and night.
- 00:19:52.356 --> 00:19:53.724
- But that's not all, "you have to observe all that is written
- 00:19:53.724 --> 00:19:57.495
- In it."
- 00:19:57.495 --> 00:19:58.863
- That's what the verse says, "observe all that is written
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- In it."
- 00:20:02.033 --> 00:20:04.068
- It's not for you to pick and choose what parts of the bible
- 00:20:04.068 --> 00:20:07.104
- You like and throw out the ones, the parts you don't understand,
- 00:20:07.104 --> 00:20:11.042
- Or like, and some people do that.
- 00:20:11.042 --> 00:20:13.544
- Well, i like the bible.
- 00:20:13.544 --> 00:20:16.013
- I like what god says about forgiveness, and love,
- 00:20:16.013 --> 00:20:18.783
- And grace, and peace.
- 00:20:18.783 --> 00:20:20.885
- I'm not so sure about what the bible says about sexuality.
- 00:20:20.885 --> 00:20:25.356
- I mean, this is our choice, and we can do what we want.
- 00:20:25.356 --> 00:20:28.392
- It's my body.
- 00:20:28.392 --> 00:20:29.794
- So if i'm pregnant and i want to terminate that pregnancy,
- 00:20:29.794 --> 00:20:33.798
- My body, my choice.
- 00:20:33.798 --> 00:20:36.267
- I'm sorry.
- 00:20:36.267 --> 00:20:37.635
- That's in contradiction to what the bible says.
- 00:20:37.635 --> 00:20:39.637
- The bible says that we're fearfully and wonderfully made,
- 00:20:39.637 --> 00:20:42.807
- And that life begins at conception.
- 00:20:42.807 --> 00:20:44.976
- That's another body now inside of your body, that has the
- 00:20:44.976 --> 00:20:49.080
- Right to live.
- 00:20:49.080 --> 00:20:50.414
- Well, i don't agree.
- 00:20:50.414 --> 00:20:51.782
- Well, ok, you can say you don't agree, but you're going against
- 00:20:51.782 --> 00:20:54.118
- What scripture says.
- 00:20:54.118 --> 00:20:55.486
- I'm just saying this.
- 00:20:55.486 --> 00:20:56.821
- Oh, we talk about sex.
- 00:20:56.821 --> 00:20:58.155
- Well, you know, i don't really like the restrictions of the
- 00:20:58.155 --> 00:20:59.924
- Bible on sex.
- 00:20:59.924 --> 00:21:01.826
- You know, i wanna have premarital sex,
- 00:21:01.826 --> 00:21:04.195
- Extramarital sex.
- 00:21:04.195 --> 00:21:05.529
- No, god created sex in marriage.
- 00:21:05.529 --> 00:21:07.465
- The only place that he will bless it is in marriage.
- 00:21:07.465 --> 00:21:10.835
- Anything outside of that is disobedience to him.
- 00:21:10.835 --> 00:21:14.305
- Well, my god would not judge me.
- 00:21:14.305 --> 00:21:16.307
- Well, you--i don't know who your god is but he's not the god
- 00:21:16.307 --> 00:21:19.277
- Of the bible.
- 00:21:19.277 --> 00:21:20.978
- It's getting quiet in here and i don't like that.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- If what i just said is controversial to you,
- 00:21:29.553 --> 00:21:32.123
- Something's not right.
- 00:21:32.123 --> 00:21:34.258
- This should be an amen, of course, right, that's what
- 00:21:34.258 --> 00:21:37.261
- The bible says.
- 00:21:37.261 --> 00:21:38.596
- Right, that's it.
- 00:21:38.596 --> 00:21:43.734
- Look, folks, this is a package deal.
- 00:21:43.734 --> 00:21:47.071
- We don't pick and choose what parts of the bible we like,
- 00:21:47.071 --> 00:21:50.875
- Like we're at some celestial salad bar.
- 00:21:50.875 --> 00:21:54.478
- Jesus said you are my disciples, if you do whatsoever,
- 00:21:54.478 --> 00:21:59.383
- I command you.
- 00:21:59.383 --> 00:22:00.751
- And he says, and if you really love me, do what i tell you
- 00:22:00.751 --> 00:22:03.721
- To do.
- 00:22:03.721 --> 00:22:05.089
- So, it's as simple as that.
- 00:22:05.089 --> 00:22:06.891
- He gives us his word, we need the word.
- 00:22:06.891 --> 00:22:08.859
- And by the way, you never outgrow this.
- 00:22:08.859 --> 00:22:11.595
- There doesn't come a point where you say, well, i don't really
- 00:22:11.595 --> 00:22:13.597
- Need to read the bible.
- 00:22:13.597 --> 00:22:14.965
- I've read it so many times.
- 00:22:14.965 --> 00:22:16.801
- Okay, and besides, nothing ever changes in the bible.
- 00:22:16.801 --> 00:22:20.971
- That's one of the great things about the bible,
- 00:22:20.971 --> 00:22:22.606
- It doesn't change.
- 00:22:22.606 --> 00:22:24.141
- I love that.
- 00:22:24.141 --> 00:22:29.313
- Unchanging truth in a constantly changing culture.
- 00:22:29.313 --> 00:22:34.118
- I'm glad there's something i can believe in, and trust in,
- 00:22:34.118 --> 00:22:38.022
- And live by.
- 00:22:38.022 --> 00:22:39.357
- But haven't you found that certain verses of the bible that
- 00:22:39.357 --> 00:22:42.193
- You've read before, come alive to you in a whole new way when
- 00:22:42.193 --> 00:22:45.062
- You read them again, depending on where you're at in life.
- 00:22:45.062 --> 00:22:48.866
- So you read a bible story when you're 18, it's different than
- 00:22:48.866 --> 00:22:52.636
- When you're 68 or older or whatever it is.
- 00:22:52.636 --> 00:22:57.174
- So that's why the bible says, "his mercies are new
- 00:22:57.174 --> 00:23:00.177
- Every morning."
- 00:23:00.177 --> 00:23:01.879
- And i can think of so many times i've been listening to someone
- 00:23:01.879 --> 00:23:04.382
- Preach and they'll say something.
- 00:23:04.382 --> 00:23:06.650
- It's like they wrote that just for me.
- 00:23:06.650 --> 00:23:08.486
- Has that happened to you?
- 00:23:08.486 --> 00:23:10.121
- Yes, greg.
- 00:23:10.121 --> 00:23:11.455
- Not when you're preaching but others, yes.
- 00:23:11.455 --> 00:23:12.990
- Okay.
- 00:23:12.990 --> 00:23:14.325
- It's all good, but god will speak to you through his word.
- 00:23:14.325 --> 00:23:17.561
- This is the golden key of spiritual growth.
- 00:23:17.561 --> 00:23:21.098
- This is a secret password that it will unlock any device.
- 00:23:21.098 --> 00:23:26.837
- It will unlock your spiritual life.
- 00:23:26.837 --> 00:23:28.672
- You say, what is it again?
- 00:23:28.672 --> 00:23:30.541
- Reading, studying, memorizing, meditating on and obeying all
- 00:23:30.541 --> 00:23:37.882
- That the bible says.
- 00:23:37.882 --> 00:23:40.017
- Now i'll be honest with you.
- 00:23:40.017 --> 00:23:41.385
- There are times i come to things in the bible, it's not that
- 00:23:41.385 --> 00:23:44.054
- I don't agree with them, i just don't like them.
- 00:23:44.054 --> 00:23:46.857
- Example, forgiving someone that has hurt me.
- 00:23:46.857 --> 00:23:49.994
- I don't wanna forgive them.
- 00:23:49.994 --> 00:23:51.362
- I wanna get back at them.
- 00:23:51.362 --> 00:23:52.696
- That's human nature, right?
- 00:23:52.696 --> 00:23:55.065
- But the bible tells me to forgive, turn the other cheek,
- 00:23:55.065 --> 00:23:58.836
- Go the extra mile.
- 00:23:58.836 --> 00:24:00.638
- Oh really?
- 00:24:00.638 --> 00:24:02.072
- But i have found that when i even do those things
- 00:24:02.072 --> 00:24:04.375
- I'm uncomfortable with, i see the blessing that comes on
- 00:24:04.375 --> 00:24:07.745
- My life as a result.
- 00:24:07.745 --> 00:24:09.113
- So we need to trust god's word.
- 00:24:09.113 --> 00:24:11.382
- Jesus gave us what is called the parable of the sower.
- 00:24:11.382 --> 00:24:15.186
- I feel like i'm going to sneeze, don't you hate that.
- 00:24:15.186 --> 00:24:17.421
- It's just kind of lingering, it's coming, it's coming.
- 00:24:17.421 --> 00:24:20.458
- No, no, stay away.
- 00:24:20.458 --> 00:24:23.727
- Anyway.
- 00:24:23.727 --> 00:24:25.062
- So the parable of the sower.
- 00:24:25.062 --> 00:24:26.397
- A sower goes out and sows seed and back in those days, they
- 00:24:26.397 --> 00:24:30.801
- Just threw the seed out.
- 00:24:30.801 --> 00:24:32.303
- So some seed fell on the road and the birds came and ate
- 00:24:32.303 --> 00:24:36.707
- It quickly.
- 00:24:36.707 --> 00:24:38.042
- Other seed fell on ground, embedded with thorns and it
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- Began to grow, but the thorns and the weeds choked it out.
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- Other seed fell on shallow soil and shot up in the sun,
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- But withered because it wasn't rooted.
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- And some seed fell on good ground.
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- And then jesus said there in mark 4, "the seed that fell on
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- Good ground represents those, listen, who hear and accept
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- God's word and produce a harvest."
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- That's it.
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- You hear it, you accept it, you believe it, you apply it.
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- That's how you bring forth fruit in the spiritual life.
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- So let's wrap this up.
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- What have we learned together?
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- Number one, we found the golden key of spiritual growth is
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- Hearing, receiving and obeying the word of god.
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- Also, we discovered that we must overcome our fears and admit
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- We need help and lots of it.
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- And we also discovered we must be consistent in the spiritual
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- Life, be faithful with what god has set before you.
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- Be faithful in the small things and god will give you greater
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- Things to do.
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- Be faithful with your finances, be faithful in your marriage, be
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- Faithful in your singleness, be faithfulness in whatever you do,
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- And you will find the blessing of god will come to you.
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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.
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- We're separated from god by our sin because we've all broken
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- His commandments.
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- But the good news 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 rise
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- 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 you're
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- 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
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- This moment forward.
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- Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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- If you did, god in heaven has heard you.
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- And i wanna send you a new testament to start reading.
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- ♪ for god so loved ♪
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- ♪ the world that he gave us ♪
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- ♪ his one and only son to save us. ♪
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- ♪ whoever believes in him ♪
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- ♪ will live forever. ♪
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- ♪ the power of hell, ♪
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- ♪ forever defeated. ♪
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- ♪ now in his will, ♪
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- ♪ i'm walking in freedom. ♪♪
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