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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - How To Live A Successful Christian Life | March 19, 2026
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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
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- 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.
- 00:12:40.202 --> 00:12:41.570
- It probably all assumed moses would do that.
- 00:12:41.570 --> 00:12:44.340
- But in fact, god was raising up joshua, and he was a worthy
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- Successor to moses.
- 00:12:48.310 --> 00:12:50.780
- And it's just a reminder that god raises up new people.
- 00:12:50.780 --> 00:12:55.284
- You know, people come and go on the stage.
- 00:12:55.284 --> 00:12:58.354
- Our job is to be faithful in our generation.
- 00:12:58.354 --> 00:13:02.591
- 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.
- 00:13:06.862 --> 00:13:11.100
- After he had been faithful in his own generation."
- 00:13:11.100 --> 00:13:14.136
- I have my generation and a new generation comes.
- 00:13:14.136 --> 00:13:17.039
- 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.
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- Don't you believe a word of it.
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- At that moment, i'll be more alive than i have ever
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- Been, right?
- 00:13:27.883 --> 00:13:29.518
- But i'm a realist.
- 00:13:29.518 --> 00:13:34.089
- I understand death will come.
- 00:13:34.089 --> 00:13:35.891
- I'm kind of hoping the rapture will come first, lord, are
- 00:13:35.891 --> 00:13:38.527
- You listening?
- 00:13:38.527 --> 00:13:39.895
- That, i prefer that mode of transportation, but whatever it
- 00:13:39.895 --> 00:13:42.565
- Is, my job is to serve the lord faithfully in my generation.
- 00:13:42.565 --> 00:13:46.769
- Then the lord raises up another.
- 00:13:46.769 --> 00:13:48.871
- That's what he always does.
- 00:13:48.871 --> 00:13:50.506
- Some people think they're indispensable.
- 00:13:50.506 --> 00:13:53.309
- Listen, graveyards are filled with indispensable people.
- 00:13:53.309 --> 00:13:58.414
- So just serve god in your generation.
- 00:13:58.414 --> 00:14:02.351
- Greg: you know, the bible says of king david, he served the
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- Purpose of god in his generation, and then
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- He fell asleep.
- 00:14:10.292 --> 00:14:11.660
- By the way, that phrase "to fall asleep" means he died.
- 00:14:11.660 --> 00:14:14.930
- And that phrase is only used of death when it concerns
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- The believer.
- 00:14:17.967 --> 00:14:19.335
- When a believer dies, the bible says they fall asleep, which is
- 00:14:19.335 --> 00:14:21.971
- Kind of a beautiful picture of death when you think about it,
- 00:14:21.971 --> 00:14:25.107
- Because sleeping isn't a bad thing, especially as you
- 00:14:25.107 --> 00:14:28.410
- Get older.
- 00:14:28.410 --> 00:14:29.778
- In fact, when you're older, happy hour is a nap.
- 00:14:29.778 --> 00:14:32.481
- I digress, but david served the purpose of god in
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- His generation.
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- And here's my question for you, are you serving the purpose of
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- God in your generation?
- 00:14:41.857 --> 00:14:44.226
- See, there has to come a moment in our life when we go from
- 00:14:44.226 --> 00:14:48.430
- Money to meaning, from success, to significance,
- 00:14:48.430 --> 00:14:53.535
- From possessions to purpose.
- 00:14:53.535 --> 00:14:55.804
- And what is your purpose?
- 00:14:55.804 --> 00:14:57.273
- It's to serve god's purpose in your generation.
- 00:14:57.273 --> 00:15:01.510
- In other words, to find the will of god and live it out.
- 00:15:01.510 --> 00:15:04.647
- 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.
- 00:15:09.218 --> 00:15:12.588
- And i'm asking you right now, are you serving god's purpose in
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- Your generation and your life?
- 00:15:16.125 --> 00:15:17.893
- Look, our life, we have a date of birth and we have a
- 00:15:17.893 --> 00:15:21.897
- Date of death.
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- We don't know what that date of death will be.
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- 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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- ♪♪♪
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- 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.
- 00:15:49.591 --> 00:15:52.594
- I will not leave you or forsake you."
- 00:15:52.594 --> 00:15:55.831
- And just as god was with joshua, god is with you.
- 00:15:55.831 --> 00:16:00.502
- I love how jesus says in matthew 28,
- 00:16:00.502 --> 00:16:04.873
- "lo, i am with you even to the end of the age."
- 00:16:04.873 --> 00:16:09.178
- 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.
- 00:16:14.450 --> 00:16:15.985
- 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."
- 00:16:26.495 --> 00:16:27.830
- Underline, all that is written in it.
- 00:16:27.830 --> 00:16:29.665
- "then you will make your way prosperous and you will have
- 00:16:29.665 --> 00:16:32.067
- Good success."
- 00:16:32.067 --> 00:16:34.803
- What god said to joshua was unprecedented historically,
- 00:16:34.803 --> 00:16:39.775
- Up to this point.
- 00:16:39.775 --> 00:16:41.143
- When god spoke to people, he spoke audibly to them.
- 00:16:41.143 --> 00:16:44.480
- God spoke audibly to noah and told him to build the ark.
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- God spoke audibly to abraham and told him to leave for a distant
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- Land he had never been to before.
- 00:16:53.022 --> 00:16:55.958
- God had spoken audibly to moses through a burning bush.
- 00:16:55.958 --> 00:16:59.995
- But now the lord says, i'm gonna speak to you through the book,
- 00:16:59.995 --> 00:17:04.933
- And that is how god speaks to us today.
- 00:17:04.933 --> 00:17:07.069
- I'll be honest, when i talk to people that say god speaks to me
- 00:17:07.069 --> 00:17:10.672
- All the time, i get a little suspicious.
- 00:17:10.672 --> 00:17:13.742
- I'm not so sure, but i know this, he will speak to you
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- Through this book, right?
- 00:17:16.945 --> 00:17:19.314
- Jesus said, "low in the volume of the book.
- 00:17:19.314 --> 00:17:22.151
- I have come, it is written of me."
- 00:17:22.151 --> 00:17:23.719
- God will speak to you through the bible.
- 00:17:23.719 --> 00:17:26.688
- But what should i do?
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- I should meditate in it, day and night, meditate in it.
- 00:17:28.023 --> 00:17:32.428
- Now, what does that mean?
- 00:17:32.428 --> 00:17:34.029
- 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.
- 00:17:37.032 --> 00:17:40.903
- 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.
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- In the bible.
- 00:17:52.147 --> 00:17:53.482
- To meditate means to contemplate, to ponder,
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- To consider these things.
- 00:17:57.853 --> 00:18:01.023
- Another way to translate the word meditate is to mutter,
- 00:18:01.023 --> 00:18:04.960
- To mutter or to speak aloud.
- 00:18:04.960 --> 00:18:07.496
- Sometimes it helps to read the bible out loud, because you
- 00:18:07.496 --> 00:18:11.133
- Know, you can read verses and it doesn't penetrate your brain.
- 00:18:11.133 --> 00:18:14.736
- Someone might say i read ten chapters of the bible today.
- 00:18:14.736 --> 00:18:17.940
- Really?
- 00:18:17.940 --> 00:18:19.308
- Wow.
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- What were they about?
- 00:18:20.642 --> 00:18:22.010
- I have no idea.
- 00:18:22.010 --> 00:18:23.846
- I'd rather read ten verses with understanding than ten chapters
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- Without it, right?
- 00:18:28.117 --> 00:18:29.485
- So that's where meditation comes in.
- 00:18:29.485 --> 00:18:31.620
- You think about it, you consider it and you hide it in your
- 00:18:31.620 --> 00:18:35.557
- Heart, you memorize it.
- 00:18:35.557 --> 00:18:38.227
- The bible says, "your word have i hid in my heart that i might
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- Not sin against you."
- 00:18:41.163 --> 00:18:43.565
- Don't tell me you can't memorize things.
- 00:18:43.565 --> 00:18:45.567
- I can't, it's hard.
- 00:18:45.567 --> 00:18:46.902
- You memorize lines from films, lyrics to songs, sports scores
- 00:18:46.902 --> 00:18:53.075
- Going back decades.
- 00:18:53.075 --> 00:18:54.810
- And you tell me you don't have any bandwidth in your brain to
- 00:18:54.810 --> 00:18:57.779
- Memorize the word of god?
- 00:18:57.779 --> 00:18:59.148
- Of course you do.
- 00:18:59.148 --> 00:19:01.016
- 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
- 00:19:04.253 --> 00:19:07.689
- In the way of sinners, or sit in the seat of the scornful; but
- 00:19:07.689 --> 00:19:10.926
- His delight is in the law of the lord, or the word of the lord.
- 00:19:10.926 --> 00:19:14.596
- And in it, he meditates day and night, notice, day and night,
- 00:19:14.596 --> 00:19:20.068
- And he'll be like a tree, planted by the rivers of water.
- 00:19:20.068 --> 00:19:23.839
- He'll bring forth fruit and his leave shall not wither."
- 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.309
- I memorized that when i was 19 years old and i still remember
- 00:19:27.309 --> 00:19:31.079
- It today.
- 00:19:31.079 --> 00:19:32.414
- It's a great place to hide god's word in your mind and heart.
- 00:19:32.414 --> 00:19:35.450
- You know, you can carry the bible in your purse or your
- 00:19:35.450 --> 00:19:38.420
- Briefcase or your man bag.
- 00:19:38.420 --> 00:19:40.889
- But i mean, what do they call those now?
- 00:19:40.889 --> 00:19:45.027
- Immerse?
- 00:19:45.027 --> 00:19:46.361
- I'm not sure what it is, but the best place to hide the word
- 00:19:46.361 --> 00:19:49.097
- Of god is in your heart.
- 00:19:49.097 --> 00:19:51.400
- Meditate in it, day and night.
- 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:52.768
- But that's not all, "you have to observe all that is written
- 00:19:52.768 --> 00:19:56.538
- In it."
- 00:19:56.538 --> 00:19:57.906
- That's what the verse says, "observe all that is written
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- In it."
- 00:20:01.076 --> 00:20:03.111
- It's not for you to pick and choose what parts of the bible
- 00:20:03.111 --> 00:20:06.148
- You like and throw out the ones, the parts you don't understand,
- 00:20:06.148 --> 00:20:10.085
- Or like, and some people do that.
- 00:20:10.085 --> 00:20:12.588
- Well, i like the bible.
- 00:20:12.588 --> 00:20:15.057
- I like what god says about forgiveness, and love,
- 00:20:15.057 --> 00:20:17.826
- And grace, and peace.
- 00:20:17.826 --> 00:20:19.928
- I'm not so sure about what the bible says about sexuality.
- 00:20:19.928 --> 00:20:24.399
- I mean, this is our choice, and we can do what we want.
- 00:20:24.399 --> 00:20:27.436
- It's my body.
- 00:20:27.436 --> 00:20:28.837
- So if i'm pregnant and i want to terminate that pregnancy,
- 00:20:28.837 --> 00:20:32.841
- My body, my choice.
- 00:20:32.841 --> 00:20:35.310
- I'm sorry.
- 00:20:35.310 --> 00:20:36.678
- That's in contradiction to what the bible says.
- 00:20:36.678 --> 00:20:38.680
- The bible says that we're fearfully and wonderfully made,
- 00:20:38.680 --> 00:20:41.850
- And that life begins at conception.
- 00:20:41.850 --> 00:20:44.019
- That's another body now inside of your body, that has the
- 00:20:44.019 --> 00:20:48.123
- Right to live.
- 00:20:48.123 --> 00:20:49.458
- Well, i don't agree.
- 00:20:49.458 --> 00:20:50.826
- Well, ok, you can say you don't agree, but you're going against
- 00:20:50.826 --> 00:20:53.161
- What scripture says.
- 00:20:53.161 --> 00:20:54.529
- I'm just saying this.
- 00:20:54.529 --> 00:20:55.864
- Oh, we talk about sex.
- 00:20:55.864 --> 00:20:57.199
- Well, you know, i don't really like the restrictions of the
- 00:20:57.199 --> 00:20:58.967
- Bible on sex.
- 00:20:58.967 --> 00:21:00.869
- You know, i wanna have premarital sex,
- 00:21:00.869 --> 00:21:03.238
- Extramarital sex.
- 00:21:03.238 --> 00:21:04.573
- No, god created sex in marriage.
- 00:21:04.573 --> 00:21:06.508
- The only place that he will bless it is in marriage.
- 00:21:06.508 --> 00:21:09.878
- Anything outside of that is disobedience to him.
- 00:21:09.878 --> 00:21:13.348
- Well, my god would not judge me.
- 00:21:13.348 --> 00:21:15.350
- Well, you--i don't know who your god is but he's not the god
- 00:21:15.350 --> 00:21:18.320
- Of the bible.
- 00:21:18.320 --> 00:21:20.022
- 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,
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- Something's not right.
- 00:21:31.166 --> 00:21:33.302
- This should be an amen, of course, right, that's what
- 00:21:33.302 --> 00:21:36.305
- The bible says.
- 00:21:36.305 --> 00:21:37.639
- Right, that's it.
- 00:21:37.639 --> 00:21:42.778
- Look, folks, this is a package deal.
- 00:21:42.778 --> 00:21:46.114
- We don't pick and choose what parts of the bible we like,
- 00:21:46.114 --> 00:21:49.918
- Like we're at some celestial salad bar.
- 00:21:49.918 --> 00:21:53.522
- Jesus said you are my disciples, if you do whatsoever,
- 00:21:53.522 --> 00:21:58.427
- I command you.
- 00:21:58.427 --> 00:21:59.795
- And he says, and if you really love me, do what i tell you
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- To do.
- 00:22:02.764 --> 00:22:04.132
- So, it's as simple as that.
- 00:22:04.132 --> 00:22:05.934
- He gives us his word, we need the word.
- 00:22:05.934 --> 00:22:07.903
- And by the way, you never outgrow this.
- 00:22:07.903 --> 00:22:10.639
- There doesn't come a point where you say, well, i don't really
- 00:22:10.639 --> 00:22:12.641
- Need to read the bible.
- 00:22:12.641 --> 00:22:14.009
- I've read it so many times.
- 00:22:14.009 --> 00:22:15.844
- Okay, and besides, nothing ever changes in the bible.
- 00:22:15.844 --> 00:22:20.015
- That's one of the great things about the bible,
- 00:22:20.015 --> 00:22:21.650
- It doesn't change.
- 00:22:21.650 --> 00:22:23.185
- I love that.
- 00:22:23.185 --> 00:22:28.357
- Unchanging truth in a constantly changing culture.
- 00:22:28.357 --> 00:22:33.161
- I'm glad there's something i can believe in, and trust in,
- 00:22:33.161 --> 00:22:37.065
- And live by.
- 00:22:37.065 --> 00:22:38.400
- But haven't you found that certain verses of the bible that
- 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:41.236
- You've read before, come alive to you in a whole new way when
- 00:22:41.236 --> 00:22:44.106
- You read them again, depending on where you're at in life.
- 00:22:44.106 --> 00:22:47.909
- So you read a bible story when you're 18, it's different than
- 00:22:47.909 --> 00:22:51.680
- When you're 68 or older or whatever it is.
- 00:22:51.680 --> 00:22:56.218
- So that's why the bible says, "his mercies are new
- 00:22:56.218 --> 00:22:59.221
- Every morning."
- 00:22:59.221 --> 00:23:00.922
- And i can think of so many times i've been listening to someone
- 00:23:00.922 --> 00:23:03.425
- Preach and they'll say something.
- 00:23:03.425 --> 00:23:05.694
- It's like they wrote that just for me.
- 00:23:05.694 --> 00:23:07.529
- Has that happened to you?
- 00:23:07.529 --> 00:23:09.164
- Yes, greg.
- 00:23:09.164 --> 00:23:10.499
- Not when you're preaching but others, yes.
- 00:23:10.499 --> 00:23:12.033
- Okay.
- 00:23:12.033 --> 00:23:13.368
- It's all good, but god will speak to you through his word.
- 00:23:13.368 --> 00:23:16.605
- This is the golden key of spiritual growth.
- 00:23:16.605 --> 00:23:20.142
- This is a secret password that it will unlock any device.
- 00:23:20.142 --> 00:23:25.881
- It will unlock your spiritual life.
- 00:23:25.881 --> 00:23:27.716
- You say, what is it again?
- 00:23:27.716 --> 00:23:29.584
- Reading, studying, memorizing, meditating on and obeying all
- 00:23:29.584 --> 00:23:36.925
- That the bible says.
- 00:23:36.925 --> 00:23:39.060
- Now i'll be honest with you.
- 00:23:39.060 --> 00:23:40.429
- There are times i come to things in the bible, it's not that
- 00:23:40.429 --> 00:23:43.098
- I don't agree with them, i just don't like them.
- 00:23:43.098 --> 00:23:45.901
- Example, forgiving someone that has hurt me.
- 00:23:45.901 --> 00:23:49.037
- I don't wanna forgive them.
- 00:23:49.037 --> 00:23:50.405
- I wanna get back at them.
- 00:23:50.405 --> 00:23:51.740
- That's human nature, right?
- 00:23:51.740 --> 00:23:54.109
- But the bible tells me to forgive, turn the other cheek,
- 00:23:54.109 --> 00:23:57.879
- Go the extra mile.
- 00:23:57.879 --> 00:23:59.681
- Oh, really?
- 00:23:59.681 --> 00:24:01.116
- But i have found that when i even do those things
- 00:24:01.116 --> 00:24:03.418
- I'm uncomfortable with, i see the blessing that comes on
- 00:24:03.418 --> 00:24:06.788
- My life as a result.
- 00:24:06.788 --> 00:24:08.156
- So we need to trust god's word.
- 00:24:08.156 --> 00:24:10.425
- Jesus gave us what is called the parable of the sower.
- 00:24:10.425 --> 00:24:14.229
- I feel like i'm going to sneeze, don't you hate that.
- 00:24:14.229 --> 00:24:16.465
- It's just kind of lingering, it's coming, it's coming.
- 00:24:16.465 --> 00:24:19.501
- No, no, stay away.
- 00:24:19.501 --> 00:24:22.771
- Anyway.
- 00:24:22.771 --> 00:24:24.105
- So the parable of the sower.
- 00:24:24.105 --> 00:24:25.440
- A sower goes out and sows seed and back in those days, they
- 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:29.845
- Just threw the seed out.
- 00:24:29.845 --> 00:24:31.346
- So some seed fell on the road and the birds came and ate
- 00:24:31.346 --> 00:24:35.750
- It quickly.
- 00:24:35.750 --> 00:24:37.085
- Other seed fell on ground, embedded with thorns and it
- 00:24:37.085 --> 00:24:39.387
- Began to grow, but the thorns and the weeds choked it out.
- 00:24:39.387 --> 00:24:43.158
- 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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- Female announcer: jesus says that where two or three are
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- Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
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- We are all different.
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- We have different interests, different personalities,
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- Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
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- But here, we have a deep connection,
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- And you are welcome here.
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- This is harvest.
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