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Greg Laurie - Jesus and The Heart That Grieves

January 25, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Jesus and The Heart That Grieves
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Jesus and The Heart That Grieves | January 25, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: in your prayers, you can be honest to god.
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  • You think you're gonna say something that will shock him?
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  • Have you ever read the psalms of david, where he laments?
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  • He laments about what's happening in his life, he
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  • Complains about the hardships that he's facing, but then often
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  • He will correct his own thinking.
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  • You know, he'll say, "why art thou cast down, o my soul?
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  • Hope thou in god."
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  • But prior to that, he's talking about how hard everything is
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  • For him.
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  • So a prayer is just honest communication to god.
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: well, we've probably all experienced it, that knock on
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  • Our door late at night.
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  • We're hoping it's just the 48th package from amazon that week,
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  • But then you answer the door, and it's something that's
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  • Very troubling.
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  • Or maybe it's that phone call in the middle of the night, and
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  • Before you answer, your heart starts beating, and you're
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  • Praying, "don't let this be bad news."
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  • But then you get that call, you hear that diagnosis, you--the
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  • Message is given to you, maybe it's even a text, and it's the
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  • Worst-case scenario: someone you love has died unexpectedly.
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  • And, you know, death doesn't really care who you are.
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  • It knocks at every door, it and it takes no prisoners.
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  • It doesn't matter if you're a billionaire or a barista, a
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  • Janitor or a ceo.
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  • As it has been said, the statistics on death are
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  • Quite impressive.
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  • One out of every one person will die.
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  • And it's something we need to think about.
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  • Only those who are prepared to die are really ready to live.
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  • It's not a bad thing to discuss your mortality.
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  • It's not a bad thing to acknowledge that death is
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  • Coming, but it's also a motivation for us to make sure
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  • That we're living our life in a meaningful way.
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  • But the reality, is death is coming.
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  • It's not a friend, it is an enemy.
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  • It takes people in their prime.
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  • It cuts lives short.
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  • It leaves behind sorrowing spouses, children, parents, and
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  • Friends, and the bible says the last enemy to be destroyed is
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  • Death in 1 corinthians 15:26.
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  • So here's the bottom line: it was not god's intention for us
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  • To die.
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  • When he created us and put us in the garden of eden, our first
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  • Parents, adam and eve, if they had made the right choices and
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  • Not the wrong one, we would have not died.
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  • But with their sin that entered into the entire human race came
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  • Sickness and death and all--and aging and all the things that
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  • Affect us in this life now, but that was not god's
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  • Original plan.
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  • So i bring this up because i'm gonna look at the story now with
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  • You in the bible, a familiar story, a beautiful story, a
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  • Powerful story about three people: mary, martha,
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  • And lazarus.
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  • They were actual friends of jesus.
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  • A lot of people might claim to be friends of our lord, but they
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  • Actually were his personal friends.
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  • He spent a lot of time with them.
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  • They lived in bethany.
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  • Martha clearly was a great cook, and jesus liked to spend time
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  • There, and they were a tight-knit family.
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  • And one day, their brother got very sick, so they send word now
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  • To jesus that lazarus is ill.
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  • So john chapter 11, i'm gonna read verses 1-3.
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  • "now a certain man was sick, lazarus of bethany, the town of
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  • Mary and her sister martha.
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  • It was mary who anointed the lord with fragrant oil and wiped
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  • His feet with her hair, whose brother lazarus was sick.
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  • Therefore the sister said to him, saying, 'lord, behold, he
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  • Whom you love is sick.'"
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  • I would underline that word, that phrase, "he whom you love."
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  • "he whom you love is sick."
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  • Now, here's point number one if you're taking notes: life is
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  • Filled with pain, sorrow, and the death of loved ones.
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  • Is that not the most depressing point of all time?
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  • I'm sorry, but it's worth noting.
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  • Life is filled with pain and sorrow and the death of loved
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  • Ones, and we should not be shocked when it happens to us.
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  • The bible even says in 1 peter 4:12, "don't think it strange
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  • Concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though
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  • Something strange were happening to you."
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  • Number two, god loves us even when we suffer.
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  • God loves us even when we suffer.
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  • Now, we wonder, why didn't jesus rush to their side and heal
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  • Their brother?
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  • They send word to him, "lord, the one that you love."
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  • They remind jesus, "lord, you love this guy.
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  • He's your friend.
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  • The one that you love is sick."
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  • Well, if god really loved us, why would he allow sickness in
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  • Our life?
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  • Well, this is not a question we can easily answer, but i don't
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  • Think we want to miss this point: god does love us.
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  • And no matter what happens to us, we must remember he
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  • Loves us.
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  • Whatever he does or allows to happen in our life as his child,
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  • It's motivated by his everlasting love for you.
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  • Whatever he does or allows in your life as his child is
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  • Motivated by his everlasting love for you.
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  • And so they lean into that.
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  • "jesus, the one whom you love, he is sick."
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  • Another translation puts it this way: "lord, your dear friend is
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  • Very sick."
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  • Now, mary and martha do provide us with an excellent example of
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  • What to do in times of crisis.
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  • They show us what we should do when someone we love is sick or
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  • When we have a need, and so they bring their troubles to jesus,
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  • And we see this pattern throughout the bible.
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  • When the israelites criticized and turned against moses, we
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  • Read in exodus 15:25, he cried unto the lord.
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  • Is somebody criticizing you right now?
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  • Has someone turned against you?
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  • You should follow the example of the great lawgiver moses and cry
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  • Unto the lord.
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  • When hezekiah received a threatening letter, we read in
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  • Isaiah 37:14, he spread it out before the lord.
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  • Have you received a threatening letter?
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  • Spread it out before the lord.
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  • When john the baptist was beheaded, his disciples went and
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  • Told jesus, matthew 14:12.
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  • I like that, they just went and told jesus, and that's what you
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  • Need to do and what i need to do and what we need to do when
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  • Crisis hits.
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  • Just go and tell jesus, why, because scripture tells us he is
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  • A present help in times of trouble.
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  • So they go to him.
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  • They could have said, "we did all this stuff for you."
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  • And sometimes we can feel the same.
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  • "well, god, you gotta come through for me because i've been
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  • Such a good christian."
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  • I don't even like that phrase, "good christian."
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  • "they're a good christian."
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  • I'm a bad christian.
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  • I don't know about you.
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  • Are you a bad christian?
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  • I'm a christian, i'm a follower of christ, but i fall short, so
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  • I don't even like the phrase "good christian."
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  • "well, i've been a good christian, and i've read my
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  • Bible, and i've done my devotions, and i've shared my
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  • Faith with others, and i've done all these things, so, lord, you
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  • Owe me."
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  • No, i never appeal to god on the basis of what i've done.
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  • So they say, "lord, the one that you love is sick."
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  • They didn't even say, "the ones that love you are calling
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  • Upon you.
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  • Lord, you said you loved him."
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  • Okay, he is sick.
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  • That's a good basis to approach the lord on.
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  • Now we see his response.
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  • John 11:4-7, "and when jesus heard about it he said,
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  • 'lazarus's sickness will not end in death.
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  • No, it happened for the glory of god that the son of god will
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  • Receive glory from this.'
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  • And although jesus loved mary-- or martha, mary, and lazarus--he
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  • Stayed where he was for the next two days."
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  • I'd underline that.
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  • "although jesus loved martha, mary, and lazarus, he stayed
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  • Where he was for the next two days.
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  • Finally, he said to his disciples, 'let's go to judea.'"
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  • Wow, wait, he loved them, so he stayed two days?
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  • And so by the time he arrives, of course, lazarus has died, but
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  • This is a question we ask: "if god really loved me, why did he
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  • Let this happen?"
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  • But here's--we're gonna see in a few moments.
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  • Jesus was gonna do abundantly above and beyond that which they
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  • Could ask or think.
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  • They wanted a healing, he wanted a resurrection.
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  • So sometimes you're praying for something, and you're telling
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  • The lord what you think he should do, and that's okay, but
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  • That doesn't mean he's going to do it.
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  • You can say whatever you want to him, but you must recognize that
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  • He's looking at the big picture while you and i are looking at
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  • The small picture.
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  • And he had another purpose in mind for all of this, so he
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  • Intentionally delays.
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  • And when he finally arrives, they're devastated because their
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  • Brother has died.
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  • So not only did he not heal their brother as they were
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  • Hoping he would, but he even missed the funeral.
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  • Lazarus was buried.
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  • It was over with.
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  • John 11, verse 20, "then martha, as soon as she heard jesus was
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  • Coming, went and met him, but mary was sitting in the house.
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  • Then martha said to jesus, 'lord, if you had been here, my
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  • Brother would not have died.
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  • But even now i know that whatever you ask of god, he'll
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  • Give you.'
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  • And jesus said to her, 'your brother will rise again.'
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  • Martha said to him, 'i know he'll rise again in the
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  • Resurrection of the last day.'
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  • Jesus said, 'i am the resurrection and the life.
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  • He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet he shall live.
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  • And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die.
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  • Do you believe this?'"
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  • Wow, so martha's pretty direct.
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  • She's pretty accusatory, even critical, to his face.
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  • "lord, if you would have been here, my brother would not have
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  • Died," which brings up a very important point: in your
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  • Prayers, you can be honest to god.
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  • You think you're gonna say something that will shock him?
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  • Have you ever read the psalms of david where he laments?
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  • He laments about what's happening in his life, he
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  • Complains about the hardships that he's facing, but then often
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  • He will correct his own thinking.
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  • You know, he'll say, "why art thou cast down, o my soul?
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  • Hope thou in god."
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  • But prior to that, he's talking about how hard everything is
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  • For him.
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  • So a prayer is just honest communication to god.
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  • Friends can tell friends the truth, and the lord listens.
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  • And martha's accusatory in a way.
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  • "if you would have been here, my brother would not have died."
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  • But i love how she then corrects it and says, "however, i know
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  • Even now whatever you ask of god, he'll give it to you."
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  • But this reminds us of a couple of very important things
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  • When christ says, "i am the resurrection and the life.
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  • He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he
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  • Live," and that is that death is not the end.
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  • It's a transition from this life to the afterlife.
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  • Death does not have the final word, christ does.
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  • We must remember that.
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  • And the final word he gives to us is, "he that lives and
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  • Believes in me shall never die."
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  • You say, "well, what are you talking about?
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  • Of course we die."
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  • Well, yes, in one sense we do.
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  • Our body is laid in the ground, but the bible promises, one day,
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  • We will be resurrected.
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  • Our soul, our spirit, goes immediately into the presence
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  • Of god.
  • 00:13:05.307 --> 00:13:06.675
  • What happens to a christian when they die?
  • 00:13:06.675 --> 00:13:08.510
  • They go into god's presence.
  • 00:13:08.510 --> 00:13:10.312
  • Paul said to be absent from the body is to be present with
  • 00:13:10.312 --> 00:13:14.283
  • The lord.
  • 00:13:14.283 --> 00:13:15.618
  • At one point, he wrote, "i have a desire to depart and be with
  • 00:13:15.618 --> 00:13:19.255
  • Christ, which is far better."
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  • And the point is that if he were to die, he would immediately go
  • 00:13:21.991 --> 00:13:25.027
  • To be with christ, and that is the hope that every christian
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  • Has, that the moment you take your last breath on earth, you
  • 00:13:28.030 --> 00:13:31.533
  • Take your first breath in heaven.
  • 00:13:31.533 --> 00:13:33.636
  • You close your eyes on earth, and you open them in heaven.
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  • So this is a promise that god has given to all of us.
  • 00:13:38.107 --> 00:13:42.478
  • And i love this verse in john chapter 11, and i love to quote
  • 00:13:42.478 --> 00:13:48.617
  • It, and i love to think about it, and i just feel like there's
  • 00:13:48.617 --> 00:13:52.588
  • So much in it, and it's helped me on many occasions.
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  • I mentioned our son going to be with the lord, and there was a
  • 00:13:56.158 --> 00:13:59.595
  • Time not long after it happened, and i was driving along, and i
  • 00:13:59.595 --> 00:14:03.632
  • Saw something that triggered a memory about him.
  • 00:14:03.632 --> 00:14:08.904
  • And i actually said, "i'll never see him again.
  • 00:14:08.904 --> 00:14:12.508
  • I'll never hear his voice again."
  • 00:14:12.508 --> 00:14:14.743
  • And then i just preached to myself.
  • 00:14:14.743 --> 00:14:17.646
  • I said, "greg, shut up."
  • 00:14:17.646 --> 00:14:20.182
  • It's kind of fun to tell yourself to shut up.
  • 00:14:20.182 --> 00:14:23.185
  • "don't use the words 'shut up.'"
  • 00:14:23.185 --> 00:14:25.321
  • I used it because sometimes people need to just shut up.
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  • "greg, shut up," i said.
  • 00:14:30.459 --> 00:14:33.062
  • Jesus said, "i am the resurrection and the life.
  • 00:14:33.062 --> 00:14:35.698
  • He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.
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  • And whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die."
  • 00:14:38.934 --> 00:14:42.371
  • And, immediately, it corrected my thinking.
  • 00:14:42.371 --> 00:14:46.275
  • Immediately, even my emotion changed.
  • 00:14:46.275 --> 00:14:48.544
  • So it won't always change, i have to be honest.
  • 00:14:48.544 --> 00:14:51.080
  • But it changed my perspective in a nanosecond.
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  • That's right.
  • 00:14:54.984 --> 00:14:56.318
  • I had to remind myself of the promise of god.
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  • But we felt this way.
  • 00:15:00.322 --> 00:15:01.690
  • "lord, where were you?
  • 00:15:01.690 --> 00:15:03.225
  • Where were you when my marriage dissolved?
  • 00:15:03.225 --> 00:15:06.662
  • Where were you when my parents divorced?
  • 00:15:06.662 --> 00:15:09.365
  • Where were you when my child went astray?
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  • Where were you when my loved one died?"
  • 00:15:12.067 --> 00:15:15.838
  • Well, he was there with you, and he will always be with you, and
  • 00:15:15.838 --> 00:15:20.242
  • You should bring your needs and your concerns and your questions
  • 00:15:20.242 --> 00:15:24.346
  • To god.
  • 00:15:24.346 --> 00:15:25.981
  • But now, mary is going to approach, and she's going to say
  • 00:15:25.981 --> 00:15:32.087
  • Something very similar to martha.
  • 00:15:32.087 --> 00:15:34.623
  • Drop down to verse 32.
  • 00:15:34.623 --> 00:15:36.492
  • "then, when mary came to where jesus was, and saw him, she fell
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  • Down at his feet, saying to him, 'lord, if you would have been
  • 00:15:40.062 --> 00:15:42.865
  • Here, my brother would not have died.'
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  • Jesus, therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the jews who
  • 00:15:45.167 --> 00:15:49.438
  • Came with her weeping, he groaned in the spirit and
  • 00:15:49.438 --> 00:15:52.775
  • Was troubled.
  • 00:15:52.775 --> 00:15:54.309
  • And he said, 'where have you laid him?'
  • 00:15:54.309 --> 00:15:56.712
  • And they said, 'lord, come and see.'
  • 00:15:56.712 --> 00:15:59.114
  • Jesus wept.
  • 00:15:59.114 --> 00:16:00.716
  • Then the jews said, 'see how he loved him!'"
  • 00:16:00.716 --> 00:16:04.386
  • "jesus wept," the shortest verse in the bible.
  • 00:16:04.386 --> 00:16:07.456
  • Don't tell me you can't memorize scriptures.
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  • Say, "jesus wept," go.
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  • Congregation: "jesus wept."
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  • Greg: "jesus wept."
  • 00:16:14.296 --> 00:16:15.798
  • Okay, so now you know a bible verse, at least one, right?
  • 00:16:15.798 --> 00:16:19.935
  • You can memorize more as well.
  • 00:16:19.935 --> 00:16:21.870
  • You'd be surprised how much you can memorize.
  • 00:16:21.870 --> 00:16:25.307
  • But i love that statement, "jesus wept."
  • 00:16:25.307 --> 00:16:29.178
  • You know, we don't think of jesus weeping, but here he
  • 00:16:29.178 --> 00:16:33.282
  • Was weeping.
  • 00:16:33.282 --> 00:16:34.650
  • And why was he weeping?
  • 00:16:34.650 --> 00:16:35.984
  • Well, his heart was broken.
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  • He knows what it's like to feel our pain and sorrows.
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  • He knows what it's like to lose a son.
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  • He saw his own son beaten beyond human recognition and crucified
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  • On a roman cross.
  • 00:16:51.900 --> 00:16:54.169
  • Of jesus, the bible says in isaiah 53, "he was despised and
  • 00:16:54.169 --> 00:16:58.273
  • Rejected--a man of sorrows, acquainted with
  • 00:16:58.273 --> 00:17:01.710
  • The bitterest grief.
  • 00:17:01.710 --> 00:17:03.445
  • We turned our back on him and looked the other way.
  • 00:17:03.445 --> 00:17:06.448
  • When he went by, he was despised, and we did not care.
  • 00:17:06.448 --> 00:17:09.985
  • Yet it was our weaknesses he carried, it was our sorrows that
  • 00:17:09.985 --> 00:17:14.690
  • Weighed him down."
  • 00:17:14.690 --> 00:17:16.558
  • So when you go to jesus with your heartache and with your
  • 00:17:16.558 --> 00:17:19.361
  • Pain, know that he's been there, he's walked in your shoes, and
  • 00:17:19.361 --> 00:17:24.133
  • Then some.
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  • So you can bring your needs to him.
  • 00:17:25.534 --> 00:17:28.604
  • And jesus voluntarily put himself in the way of danger as
  • 00:17:28.604 --> 00:17:33.775
  • He bore our sins on the cross, and he bears our sorrows
  • 00:17:33.775 --> 00:17:38.780
  • As well.
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  • And why would he do this?
  • 00:17:40.115 --> 00:17:41.483
  • The answer is given in hebrews 2, verse 17.
  • 00:17:41.483 --> 00:17:44.753
  • "it was necessary for jesus to be in every respect like us.
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  • That's why he had to enter into every detail of human life.
  • 00:17:49.091 --> 00:17:53.195
  • And when he came before god as high priest to get rid of
  • 00:17:53.195 --> 00:17:55.531
  • People's sins, he would have already experienced it all
  • 00:17:55.531 --> 00:18:00.602
  • Himself--all the pain, the testing--and would be able to
  • 00:18:00.602 --> 00:18:03.705
  • Help where help was needed."
  • 00:18:03.705 --> 00:18:06.708
  • So death breaks god's heart.
  • 00:18:06.708 --> 00:18:09.344
  • Why did he weep?
  • 00:18:09.344 --> 00:18:10.712
  • Because he was heartbroken as well.
  • 00:18:10.712 --> 00:18:12.881
  • Let's go back to the text.
  • 00:18:12.881 --> 00:18:14.283
  • John 11:33, and then i'm gonna read verse 38.
  • 00:18:14.283 --> 00:18:18.921
  • Verse 33, "when jesus saw her weeping and the other people
  • 00:18:18.921 --> 00:18:22.791
  • Wailing with her, he was moved with indignation and he was
  • 00:18:22.791 --> 00:18:26.094
  • Deeply troubled."
  • 00:18:26.094 --> 00:18:27.462
  • And drop down to verse 38, "and jesus, deeply troubled, they
  • 00:18:27.462 --> 00:18:30.766
  • Came to the grave, and it was a cave with a stone rolled across
  • 00:18:30.766 --> 00:18:35.637
  • Its entrance."
  • 00:18:35.637 --> 00:18:37.139
  • Now, this word "troubled" could be translated he was mad.
  • 00:18:37.139 --> 00:18:41.710
  • So he was sad, and he was mad at the same time.
  • 00:18:41.710 --> 00:18:46.148
  • Who is jesus angry with?
  • 00:18:46.148 --> 00:18:48.183
  • The mourners?
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  • No.
  • 00:18:49.518 --> 00:18:50.886
  • Mary and martha?
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  • Again, no.
  • 00:18:52.221 --> 00:18:53.555
  • Jesus is angry with the grim reaper, if you will.
  • 00:18:53.555 --> 00:18:56.758
  • He's angry with death itself, and he tells them to remove the
  • 00:18:56.758 --> 00:19:01.863
  • Stone blocking the tomb.
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  • Martha protests, knowing that her brother's body is already in
  • 00:19:04.333 --> 00:19:09.137
  • The process of decomposition.
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  • I love the king james version of what she said to him.
  • 00:19:11.673 --> 00:19:15.077
  • Then she said, "no, lord, because by now he stinketh."
  • 00:19:15.077 --> 00:19:20.148
  • I just like the word "stinketh."
  • 00:19:20.148 --> 00:19:22.851
  • It's a much nicer way than saying, "you stink."
  • 00:19:22.851 --> 00:19:26.622
  • And there are people that don't smell that great, and you could
  • 00:19:26.622 --> 00:19:30.425
  • Just say, "you stinketh."
  • 00:19:30.425 --> 00:19:31.760
  • Try it, i don't know.
  • 00:19:31.760 --> 00:19:35.163
  • "he stinketh, lord.
  • 00:19:35.163 --> 00:19:36.498
  • He's decomposing.
  • 00:19:36.498 --> 00:19:38.000
  • This is a ridiculous request."
  • 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:41.403
  • But then jesus thanks his father, and this happens.
  • 00:19:41.403 --> 00:19:44.773
  • Verse 43, "jesus shouted, 'lazarus, come forth!'
  • 00:19:44.773 --> 00:19:48.710
  • And the dead man came out, and his hands and feet bound in
  • 00:19:48.710 --> 00:19:52.447
  • Graveclothes, his face wrapped in a headcloth.
  • 00:19:52.447 --> 00:19:55.584
  • And jesus said, 'unwrap him and let him go!'"
  • 00:19:55.584 --> 00:19:59.321
  • Bringing me to my next point: god can be glorified through
  • 00:19:59.321 --> 00:20:02.524
  • Human suffering, and he can bring good out of bad.
  • 00:20:02.524 --> 00:20:07.095
  • God can be glorified in human suffering, and he can bring good
  • 00:20:07.095 --> 00:20:11.867
  • Out of bad.
  • 00:20:11.867 --> 00:20:13.268
  • So he raised lazarus from the dead.
  • 00:20:13.268 --> 00:20:15.203
  • That's great, lazarus came back to life.
  • 00:20:15.203 --> 00:20:17.806
  • Is it great though?
  • 00:20:17.806 --> 00:20:19.908
  • I mean, let's think about this for a moment.
  • 00:20:19.908 --> 00:20:21.643
  • Imagine if you died and you immediately went into
  • 00:20:21.643 --> 00:20:26.081
  • God's presence.
  • 00:20:26.081 --> 00:20:27.549
  • There you are in heaven, there you are being reunited with
  • 00:20:27.549 --> 00:20:30.585
  • Loved ones that have preceded you, and you're so excited.
  • 00:20:30.585 --> 00:20:34.256
  • The bible says it's--there in god's presence, it's fullness of
  • 00:20:34.256 --> 00:20:38.160
  • Joy and pleasures forevermore.
  • 00:20:38.160 --> 00:20:40.996
  • And then you go, and you're standing before, jesus christ,
  • 00:20:40.996 --> 00:20:44.366
  • And he says, "welcome, well done my good and faithful servant.
  • 00:20:44.366 --> 00:20:48.770
  • Enter into the joy of your lord."
  • 00:20:48.770 --> 00:20:50.772
  • "thank you, lord!
  • 00:20:50.772 --> 00:20:52.107
  • It's so good to be here."
  • 00:20:52.107 --> 00:20:53.709
  • "by the way," jesus says, "i've got some good news and
  • 00:20:53.709 --> 00:20:56.812
  • Bad news."
  • 00:20:56.812 --> 00:20:58.180
  • "wait, what? seriously?"
  • 00:20:58.180 --> 00:20:59.848
  • "yeah." "well, what's the good news?"
  • 00:20:59.848 --> 00:21:01.850
  • "you're gonna come back again." "what's the bad news?"
  • 00:21:01.850 --> 00:21:05.120
  • "you're gonna have to return to earth because you're gonna be
  • 00:21:05.120 --> 00:21:08.256
  • Raised from the dead."
  • 00:21:08.256 --> 00:21:09.624
  • Would you want to be raised from the dead?
  • 00:21:09.624 --> 00:21:11.493
  • Let me put it another way: would you want to leave heaven after
  • 00:21:11.493 --> 00:21:15.497
  • You had gone there?
  • 00:21:15.497 --> 00:21:17.332
  • No.
  • 00:21:17.332 --> 00:21:18.700
  • Now, the question is, would we like our loved ones who have
  • 00:21:18.700 --> 00:21:21.370
  • Died and are in heaven to come back to us?
  • 00:21:21.370 --> 00:21:23.705
  • Yes, we would.
  • 00:21:23.705 --> 00:21:25.140
  • Absolutely, we would.
  • 00:21:25.140 --> 00:21:26.775
  • But would they, if given a choice, want to return from the
  • 00:21:26.775 --> 00:21:30.445
  • Glories of heaven back to this miserable planet as much as they
  • 00:21:30.445 --> 00:21:35.250
  • Love you?
  • 00:21:35.250 --> 00:21:36.618
  • I don't think they would.
  • 00:21:36.618 --> 00:21:38.053
  • And so, lazarus had to be raised up, which is a great miracle,
  • 00:21:38.053 --> 00:21:44.459
  • But poor lazarus, he had to die twice.
  • 00:21:44.459 --> 00:21:48.530
  • Once isn't bad enough.
  • 00:21:48.530 --> 00:21:50.699
  • Yeah, you're gonna die another time.
  • 00:21:50.699 --> 00:21:52.434
  • So this poor guy, but anyway, he--you know, what choice did
  • 00:21:52.434 --> 00:21:55.604
  • He have, you know?
  • 00:21:55.604 --> 00:21:57.272
  • "lazarus, come forth."
  • 00:21:57.272 --> 00:21:58.840
  • It's a good thing jesus said, "lazarus, come forth."
  • 00:21:58.840 --> 00:22:01.510
  • If he would have just said, "come forth," every body in
  • 00:22:01.510 --> 00:22:04.713
  • Every grave would have burst out.
  • 00:22:04.713 --> 00:22:07.282
  • No, i'm talking about lazarus, from bethany in particular.
  • 00:22:07.282 --> 00:22:12.120
  • And out comes lazarus, obviously wrapped in the bandages that
  • 00:22:12.120 --> 00:22:16.425
  • They would use in the burial process.
  • 00:22:16.425 --> 00:22:18.827
  • So he's almost--it's a little comical to me.
  • 00:22:18.827 --> 00:22:22.030
  • He's coming out, it's not, "hello, ta-da!"
  • 00:22:22.030 --> 00:22:24.499
  • You know, he's more like... "someone unwrap me."
  • 00:22:24.499 --> 00:22:28.837
  • "unwrap him," jesus says.
  • 00:22:28.837 --> 00:22:31.440
  • So he's brought back to life, and it's a great miracle, and
  • 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:35.143
  • Everyone is rejoicing.
  • 00:22:35.143 --> 00:22:37.379
  • But it is in these hardships that we go through in life that
  • 00:22:37.379 --> 00:22:41.583
  • We somehow develop a greater dependence upon god, and we
  • 00:22:41.583 --> 00:22:47.756
  • Learn to trust him even more.
  • 00:22:47.756 --> 00:22:49.825
  • In fact, you could even say through hardship, we
  • 00:22:49.825 --> 00:22:53.528
  • Develop hope.
  • 00:22:53.528 --> 00:22:55.764
  • Romans 5:3 says, "only in tribulations does this happen,
  • 00:22:55.764 --> 00:23:01.403
  • Because tribulation produces perseverance; perseverance,
  • 00:23:01.403 --> 00:23:05.440
  • Character; and character, hope."
  • 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:08.076
  • Here's the bottom line: hope grows in the garden of pain.
  • 00:23:08.076 --> 00:23:12.414
  • And so lazarus went to the other side, and he came back again.
  • 00:23:12.414 --> 00:23:18.487
  • And that's the hope of all of us.
  • 00:23:18.487 --> 00:23:21.156
  • If you've lost someone who's died in faith, you need to know
  • 00:23:21.156 --> 00:23:25.227
  • That you will see them again.
  • 00:23:25.227 --> 00:23:27.696
  • You'll be reunited with them again because death died when
  • 00:23:27.696 --> 00:23:32.868
  • Christ rose.
  • 00:23:32.868 --> 00:23:34.903
  • You know, it's hard when you're looking death in the face to say
  • 00:23:34.903 --> 00:23:38.940
  • These things, but i'm telling you: these things, these truths
  • 00:23:38.940 --> 00:23:42.344
  • Are something we can depend on.
  • 00:23:42.344 --> 00:23:44.779
  • And as we get closer to the next life, we're gonna have to really
  • 00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:49.451
  • Think about them.
  • 00:23:49.451 --> 00:23:50.785
  • And i know when you're young, you think, "well, i don't need
  • 00:23:50.785 --> 00:23:53.088
  • To think about that yet.
  • 00:23:53.088 --> 00:23:54.456
  • You old people--what are you, 72, greg?
  • 00:23:54.456 --> 00:23:56.758
  • You probably have one foot in the grave, i have my whole life
  • 00:23:56.758 --> 00:23:59.694
  • Ahead of me."
  • 00:23:59.694 --> 00:24:01.096
  • You don't know that, actually, do you?
  • 00:24:01.096 --> 00:24:04.065
  • You really don't. and so you wanna be prepared.
  • 00:24:04.065 --> 00:24:08.236
  • You decide in this life where you will spend the afterlife.
  • 00:24:08.236 --> 00:24:11.506
  • You don't wanna put this off and say,
  • 00:24:11.506 --> 00:24:13.141
  • "well, i'll get to it later.
  • 00:24:13.141 --> 00:24:14.476
  • I'll wait till i'm, you know, 95 years old on my death bed,
  • 00:24:14.476 --> 00:24:17.913
  • And i'll call on the lord."
  • 00:24:17.913 --> 00:24:19.247
  • You know, and i've been with people who've called on the lord
  • 00:24:19.247 --> 00:24:21.650
  • On their death beds on a number of occasions.
  • 00:24:21.650 --> 00:24:24.352
  • And thank god he hears our prayers even when we have
  • 00:24:24.352 --> 00:24:26.821
  • Literally rejected him for our entire life.
  • 00:24:26.821 --> 00:24:30.592
  • He's so gracious and loving.
  • 00:24:30.592 --> 00:24:32.327
  • He'll say, "i'll forgive you and bring you to glory," just like
  • 00:24:32.327 --> 00:24:35.730
  • He did for that thief on the cross.
  • 00:24:35.730 --> 00:24:37.933
  • But you may not have the "luxury" of a death bed.
  • 00:24:37.933 --> 00:24:42.571
  • Not everybody knows when death is coming,
  • 00:24:42.571 --> 00:24:45.574
  • And sometimes it happens so quickly.
  • 00:24:45.574 --> 00:24:47.976
  • You have no moment to pray, no moment to turn to god.
  • 00:24:47.976 --> 00:24:51.279
  • And here's another problem.
  • 00:24:51.279 --> 00:24:52.914
  • You say you'll turn to god on your death bed.
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  • Consider this, if you reject christ
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  • Throughout your entire life, your heart
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  • Could grow irreparably hardened against him.
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  • So it's not that you could not call on the lord, but it's more
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  • Like you won't call on the name of the lord 'cause you're hard
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  • Against god.
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  • You don't wanna let that happen.
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  • So while your heart is still a bit tender, this is the time to
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  • Get right with him.
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  • The bible says, "prepare to meet your god."
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  • And i ask you in closing, are you prepared to meet your god?
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  • Is your life right with god right now?
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  • You go, "okay. how do you know?"
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  • You have to admit you're a sinner.
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  • You have to turn from your sin, and you have to put your faith
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  • In jesus christ and christ alone to save you.
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  • Why would you gamble with something like that?
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  • You're so careful about every other area of your life,
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  • And yet here's the most important decision you will ever
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  • Make, and you're very iffy about it.
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  • You can resolve this.
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  • You can know with certainty "i know i will go to heaven."
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  • You say, "why? because you're a preacher?"
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  • No.
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  • "because you're a good christian?"
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  • I already told you. i'm a bad christian.
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  • I know i'll go to heaven, not because of what i've done for
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  • God but because of what god has done for me.
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  • And you can know it too. you can know it too.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie. i've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is that 2,000 years ago, god sent
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  • His son, jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin,
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  • And then to rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
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  • To come into your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior, who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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  • From 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 let me be the first to say to you congratulations,
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  • And welcome to the family of god.
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