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Greg Laurie - Jesus And The Last Days

February 2, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Jesus And The Last Days
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Jesus And The Last Days | February 2, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: america took a turn just a few months ago.
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  • We decided to not go in one direction and we chose to go
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  • In another.
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  • That's largely due to christians getting out there and letting
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  • Their voice be heard, and that's very important for us
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  • To do.
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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: let's turn to two passages together.
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  • John 14 and matthew 24, john 14, matthew 24.
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  • Again, the title of this message is "jesus and the last days."
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  • So, a number of years ago, i was in israel leading a tour,
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  • And we came to a place called gideon spring.
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  • Remember the story of gideon and his 300?
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  • So, he had an army of 10,000 people and the lord said,
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  • "there's too many people in your army," so the lord wanted to
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  • Shrink that army.
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  • They said, "if you're fearful and afraid, go home," and a lot
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  • Of people left.
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  • The army's getting smaller.
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  • Then the lord had them go down to this little spring of water,
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  • And the lord said, "choose the ones who are ready and alert,
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  • Because they went down and got down on one knee and pulled the
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  • Water up to their face watching for an ambush, an enemy.
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  • Those are the ones i will save you by," the lord said.
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  • So, i'm teaching on this story and i had our youth pastor
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  • With us.
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  • Now he's a pastor of a church in la.
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  • His name is steve wilburn, but at that time he was our
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  • Youth pastor.
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  • I said, "steve, demonstrate how they would have drunk
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  • The water."
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  • So, steve gets down on one knee and he starts cupping the water,
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  • Pulling it up to his mouth.
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  • And i said, "see, that's how they did it."
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  • And then for the first time i noticed a sign that said, "do
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  • Not drink this water.
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  • It is polluted."
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  • But fortunately, steve survived that.
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  • But--so it's good to read the signs.
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  • Well, all around us are what we would call signs of the times.
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  • And they're all saying one thing: jesus is coming.
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  • Even skeptics, even non-believers are asking,
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  • "haven't i heard about this somewhere before?
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  • Is this what you christians call armageddon or the last days?"
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  • They're wondering about it because of the things that
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  • Are happening.
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  • It seems like every day you turn around, not even every day,
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  • Every couple of hours, there's a new news cycle, some dramatic
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  • Event, and so many of these events are saying, "jesus is
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  • Coming back again."
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  • So, how should we react to the things happening in the
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  • World today?
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  • Here's what jesus says, john 14:1, "let not your heart be
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  • Troubled; you believe in god, believe also in me.
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  • In my father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, i
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  • Would have told you.
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  • I go to prepare a place for you, and if i go and prepare a place
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  • For you, i will come again and receive you to myself."
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  • So, here's what jesus is saying, "don't panic, it's organic."
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  • No, he's not saying that.
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  • That's not in the bible.
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  • What he's saying is don't freak out.
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  • Don't worry.
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  • The bible says, "when you see these things begin to happen,
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  • Look up for your redemption is drawing near."
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  • It doesn't say, "when you see these things begin to happen,
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  • Freak out."
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  • Look up.
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  • Why should i be calm?
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  • Why should i be looking up?
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  • How can i not have a troubled heart?
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  • Number one, he has a place prepared for me in heaven.
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  • Number two, he's coming for me.
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  • So, let's talk a little bit about this.
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  • Now, some people are frightened by this subject, but consider
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  • This, bible prophecy is not given to scare us, but to
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  • Prepare us.
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  • And we need to know about these things.
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  • These are important topics to discuss.
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  • So, let's just start with that statement of christ in john 14.
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  • He says, "i'm gonna prepare a place for you, and i will come
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  • Again and receive you to myself."
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  • Jesus is referring to the rapture.
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  • Now, there's confusion about the rapture and the second coming.
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  • They're actually two separate events.
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  • And i'll explain the rapture in a few moments because it is
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  • Somewhat controversial.
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  • But the rapture happens before the great tribulation
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  • Period begins.
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  • I'll explain that to you in a few moments as well.
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  • The second coming happens at the end of the great
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  • Tribulation period.
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  • So, this is something he's referring to because he says,
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  • "i'm going to come and receive you to myself."
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  • That phrase, "receive," could be translated to bring close.
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  • It's the same word used in matthew 24:40 where jesus
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  • Describes one being taken and the other left.
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  • "two men will be in a field: one will be taken and the
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  • Other left."
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  • Two will be in a bed: one will be taken and the other left.
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  • Two will be grinding at a mill: one will be taken and the
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  • Other left.
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  • Years ago i was laying in bed with my wife.
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  • It's okay, we're married.
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  • We were actually newlyweds and we were talking about the return
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  • Of the lord and we're saying we could just be caught up to
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  • Heaven, you know, we could go to bed and wake up in heaven.
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  • And, you know, and cathe was talking about how wonderful it
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  • Will be, and i just had this devious thought, "wouldn't it be
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  • Funny if i quietly slipped out of the bed and she thought she
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  • Missed the rapture somehow."
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  • So, i very quietly slipped out of bed.
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  • I was laying on the floor and she's saying, "greg, just think
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  • About it.
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  • We'd just be wake up in heaven, greg.
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  • Greg, greg!"
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  • I'm on the floor laughing.
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  • So, don't try this at home.
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  • I am a professional.
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  • A professional idiot, that's what i am.
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  • So, but it really will happen and it's no joke.
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  • Two will be in a bed.
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  • Shows it will happen for some at night.
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  • Two will be in a field.
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  • It shows for others it would happen in the morning or
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  • The afternoon.
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  • It's a universal event that will take place.
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  • So, the teaching of the rapture was given 2000 years ago by
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  • Jesus on the mount of olives.
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  • He answered a question they asked, "what will be the sign of
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  • Your coming?"
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  • Let me update that.
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  • Lord, how will we know when we're actually in the last days?
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  • And so, jesus gives this long answer.
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  • This is the longest answer he gave to any question in
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  • The bible.
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  • Sometimes it's called the olivet discourse because he said
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  • It on the mount of olives.
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  • But he's telling us what the future will be.
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  • Understand when god--i hesitate to use the word predict because
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  • Predict suggests that it may or may not be true.
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  • When god speaks of the future, it's fact.
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  • It's as factual as if he was speaking of the present or even
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  • Of the past, because god lives in the eternal realm.
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  • So, when he says something is going to happen, it's not as
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  • Though the lord is going out on a limb somehow.
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  • It's certain.
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  • It's absolute.
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  • So, he gives a flyover of the end times events here in
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  • Matthew 24.
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  • Let's read a few of those verses starting in verse 3, "as he sat
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  • On the mount of olives, the disciples came to him privately,
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  • Saying, 'tell us, when will these things be?
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  • What will be the sign of your coming, and of the end of
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  • The age?'
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  • Jesus answered and said to them: 'take heed that no one
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  • Deceives you.
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  • For many will come in my name, saying, 'i am the christ,' and
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  • Will deceive many, and you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars.
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  • See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come
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  • To pass, but the end is not yet.
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  • For nation will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom.
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  • There'll be famine, pestilences, and earthquakes in
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  • Various places.'"
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  • Drop down now to verse 8 of matthew 24, "'all these are the
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  • Beginning of sorrows.'"
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  • "'therefore when you see the 'abomination of desolation,'
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  • Spoken of by daniel the prophet, standing on the holy place,'
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  • (whoever reads, let him understand).'"
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  • And then we'll stop right there.
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  • So, here's an important thing.
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  • God wants us to know about these things.
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  • Notice as jesus mentions the abomination of desolation,
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  • Which, by the way, is after the temple is rebuilt by the
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  • Antichrist, he will do something that offends god.
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  • He'll declare himself as god in the temple.
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  • That's the abomination of desolation.
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  • But notice the bible says, "let the reader understand," like
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  • Understand what i'm saying.
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  • Some would say, "we can't understand these things."
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  • No, that's not true because it's not god's desire to conceal but
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  • To reveal.
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  • We need to know about end times events.
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  • I think we need more preaching in pulpits today about end
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  • Times events.
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  • It's very important for us to understand this.
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  • I was talking with joe rosenberg in the back room and we were
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  • Discussing how this was talked about so much more years ago, in
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  • The jesus movement you heard about it all the time.
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  • Now it's becoming rare to hear a preacher talk about this, and i
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  • Think it's unfortunate because i think people really want to know
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  • About it.
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  • And paul even writes in thessalonians, "brothers, i
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  • Don't want you to be ignorant about these things."
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  • So, that brings me to point number one.
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  • The tribulation period begins with the emergence
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  • Of antichrist.
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  • Verse 5, "many will come in my name saying, 'i am the christ,'
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  • And will deceive many."
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  • So, there is a period of time coming on the earth called the
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  • Great tribulation period.
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  • It is my firm belief that christians will not be in the
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  • Great tribulation period.
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  • In fact, i don't even think the great tribulation period can
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  • Start until the church, i mean christians, are removed from
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  • This earth.
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  • Now, the antichrist is going to emerge on the scene as a great
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  • World leader.
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  • A man with peaceful overtures, a man with economic solutions.
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  • In fact, no one will be able to buy or sell unless you have
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  • Taken his convenient little mark.
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  • It's going to be a cashless society.
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  • He's going to do what no other leader has ever been able to do,
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  • And some will even hail him as the messiah.
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  • The prefix anti doesn't just mean against, it also means
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  • Instead of.
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  • He's a false christ.
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  • He's a false messiah masquerading as messiah.
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  • But the tribulation period lasts for seven years, and at the
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  • Three and a half year mark midway, he shows his true
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  • Colors, commits the abomination of desolation, and then the
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  • Judgment of god is poured out upon the planet.
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  • Let me put a graph on the screen that will help you get clarity
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  • On how this works chronologically.
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  • So, in my opinion, which is right, i believe.
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  • We'll see.
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  • The next event is the rapture.
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  • You see it there.
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  • Then antichrist, then this seven year period, this peace treaty
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  • Is signed, culminating in the battle of armageddon fought in
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  • The valley of megiddo in israel.
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  • Then christ returns in the second coming, and then the
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  • Millennium begins.
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  • The word millennium means 1000, the 1000-year reign of christ on
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  • The earth.
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  • This is where when you read about the lion and the lamb
  • 00:11:51.610 --> 00:11:54.714
  • Together and all that that happens in the millennium.
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  • And finally heaven comes to earth effectively.
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  • The new jerusalem, adorned as a bride for her husband, comes
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  • Down from heaven to earth.
  • 00:12:05.891 --> 00:12:08.127
  • So, the tribulation begins with the emergence of antichrist.
  • 00:12:08.127 --> 00:12:11.997
  • Now, i said i don't think antichrist can emerge until the
  • 00:12:11.997 --> 00:12:16.368
  • Church is removed, why?
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  • Because we're told over in 1 thessalonians--excuse me, 2
  • 00:12:17.737 --> 00:12:21.874
  • Thessalonians 2:7, "he who now restrains will continue to do so
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  • Until he is taken out of the way.
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  • And then that wicked one will be revealed, whom the lord will
  • 00:12:30.149 --> 00:12:33.519
  • Destroy with the brightness of his coming."
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  • There's a restraining force in the world today that is stopping
  • 00:12:36.222 --> 00:12:39.925
  • The wholesale spread of evil, and that restraining force is
  • 00:12:39.925 --> 00:12:43.829
  • The holy spirit working through the church.
  • 00:12:43.829 --> 00:12:46.499
  • But the emergence of antichrist starts at tribulation
  • 00:12:47.900 --> 00:12:50.770
  • Period which cannot begin until the church is removed.
  • 00:12:50.770 --> 00:12:53.773
  • Therefore, don't be trying to figure out who the
  • 00:12:53.773 --> 00:12:56.709
  • Antichrist is.
  • 00:12:56.709 --> 00:12:58.644
  • And every now and then someone says, "i know who the
  • 00:12:58.644 --> 00:13:00.946
  • Antichrist is."
  • 00:13:00.946 --> 00:13:02.314
  • No, you don't.
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  • You don't know.
  • 00:13:04.183 --> 00:13:05.518
  • In fact, the bible never tells us to be looking for the
  • 00:13:05.518 --> 00:13:07.753
  • Antichrist, but it does tell us to be looking for jesus christ.
  • 00:13:07.753 --> 00:13:12.324
  • So that should be our focus, right?
  • 00:13:12.324 --> 00:13:17.863
  • The tribulation period ends with the return of christ to
  • 00:13:17.863 --> 00:13:21.300
  • The earth.
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  • Verse 30, jesus says, "then the sign of the son of man will
  • 00:13:22.668 --> 00:13:26.405
  • Appear in heaven, and then all the tribes of the earth will
  • 00:13:26.405 --> 00:13:29.141
  • Mourn, and see the son of man coming on the clouds of heaven
  • 00:13:29.141 --> 00:13:33.078
  • With power and great glory."
  • 00:13:33.078 --> 00:13:35.581
  • It doesn't say greg laurie, great glory.
  • 00:13:35.581 --> 00:13:39.752
  • Though i do expect to be there.
  • 00:13:39.752 --> 00:13:42.955
  • Because when christ returns at the second coming, the bible
  • 00:13:42.955 --> 00:13:46.892
  • Says he'll return with thousands of saints and i expect to be one
  • 00:13:46.892 --> 00:13:52.164
  • Of those saints, and i expect you to be one as well, so we
  • 00:13:52.164 --> 00:13:55.000
  • Will indeed return with him.
  • 00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:58.337
  • So, this is the promise of scripture, and this is what we
  • 00:13:58.337 --> 00:14:01.540
  • Should be focusing on.
  • 00:14:01.540 --> 00:14:03.542
  • "nation will rise against nation," verse 7, "kingdom
  • 00:14:03.542 --> 00:14:06.612
  • Against kingdom.
  • 00:14:06.612 --> 00:14:07.947
  • There'll be famines, pestilences, earthquakes in
  • 00:14:07.947 --> 00:14:09.748
  • Various places."
  • 00:14:09.748 --> 00:14:11.083
  • It all culminates in the valley of megiddo for the battle
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  • Of armageddon.
  • 00:14:14.987 --> 00:14:16.322
  • Now let's shift gears and look at matthew 24:36 where jesus
  • 00:14:16.322 --> 00:14:20.793
  • Warns about date setting.
  • 00:14:20.793 --> 00:14:24.063
  • Why is this important?
  • 00:14:24.063 --> 00:14:25.431
  • Because every now and then someone comes along and says, "i
  • 00:14:25.431 --> 00:14:28.000
  • Know when jesus is coming back again."
  • 00:14:28.000 --> 00:14:31.337
  • There was a book in 1988 actually titled "88 reasons why
  • 00:14:31.337 --> 00:14:35.307
  • Christ will come back in 1988."
  • 00:14:35.307 --> 00:14:39.111
  • Millions of them sold until 1989.
  • 00:14:39.111 --> 00:14:45.150
  • No one knows the day or the hour.
  • 00:14:45.150 --> 00:14:47.453
  • This is what jesus says.
  • 00:14:47.453 --> 00:14:48.787
  • Look at verse 36, "but of the day and hour no one knows, not
  • 00:14:48.787 --> 00:14:52.992
  • Even the angels of heaven, but my father only.
  • 00:14:52.992 --> 00:14:55.694
  • But as the days of noah were, so also will the coming of the son
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  • Of man be.
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  • For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and
  • 00:15:00.399 --> 00:15:02.601
  • Drinking, marrying and giving a marriage, until the day that
  • 00:15:02.601 --> 00:15:05.604
  • Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood
  • 00:15:05.604 --> 00:15:08.807
  • Came and took them all away, so will the coming of the son of
  • 00:15:08.807 --> 00:15:12.878
  • Man be."
  • 00:15:12.878 --> 00:15:14.213
  • "watch therefore, for you don't know what hour the lord
  • 00:15:14.213 --> 00:15:16.849
  • Is coming.
  • 00:15:16.849 --> 00:15:18.183
  • Know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour
  • 00:15:18.183 --> 00:15:20.819
  • The thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his
  • 00:15:20.819 --> 00:15:23.622
  • House to be broken into.
  • 00:15:23.622 --> 00:15:25.324
  • Therefore be ready, for the son of man is coming in an hour that
  • 00:15:25.324 --> 00:15:29.361
  • You do not expect."
  • 00:15:29.361 --> 00:15:30.696
  • Now, christ is talking here about the rapture, not the
  • 00:15:30.696 --> 00:15:34.433
  • Second coming.
  • 00:15:34.433 --> 00:15:35.801
  • Listen to this.
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  • I know when the second coming is.
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  • No one knows when the rapture is.
  • 00:15:39.071 --> 00:15:40.739
  • You say, "greg, what do you mean you know when the second
  • 00:15:40.739 --> 00:15:42.574
  • Coming is?"
  • 00:15:42.574 --> 00:15:43.909
  • Put the graph back up again.
  • 00:15:43.909 --> 00:15:45.277
  • When is the second coming?
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  • It's at the end of the tribulation period.
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  • Here we go. see that?
  • 00:15:49.748 --> 00:15:51.116
  • It's at the end.
  • 00:15:51.116 --> 00:15:52.451
  • So, in the rapture, he comes for his church, in the second
  • 00:15:52.451 --> 00:15:56.722
  • Coming he returns with his church.
  • 00:15:56.722 --> 00:15:59.458
  • In the rapture, he's delivering us before judgment.
  • 00:15:59.458 --> 00:16:02.728
  • In the second coming, he's returning with judgment.
  • 00:16:02.728 --> 00:16:06.265
  • When is the second coming?
  • 00:16:06.265 --> 00:16:07.599
  • At the end of the tribulation period.
  • 00:16:07.599 --> 00:16:09.802
  • So, once it begins, it'll be seven years.
  • 00:16:09.802 --> 00:16:12.438
  • No one knows the exact date, i don't think, but you have a
  • 00:16:12.438 --> 00:16:15.341
  • General sense of when it will be rapture.
  • 00:16:15.341 --> 00:16:17.409
  • We don't know when that's going to happen.
  • 00:16:17.409 --> 00:16:18.978
  • That's what jesus is talking about right here.
  • 00:16:18.978 --> 00:16:22.081
  • So, if someone comes along and says, "i know the exact date of
  • 00:16:22.081 --> 00:16:25.351
  • Christ's return," you can be sure of one thing.
  • 00:16:25.351 --> 00:16:28.654
  • They're wrong.
  • 00:16:28.654 --> 00:16:30.022
  • It's as simple as that.
  • 00:16:30.022 --> 00:16:31.824
  • So, what is this thing called the rapture?
  • 00:16:31.824 --> 00:16:35.761
  • Our english word rapture comes from the latin translation of
  • 00:16:35.761 --> 00:16:38.897
  • The greek word "harpazo."
  • 00:16:38.897 --> 00:16:41.467
  • That word is used 14 times in the new testament.
  • 00:16:41.467 --> 00:16:45.504
  • So, it is a biblical event that's spoken of a number
  • 00:16:45.504 --> 00:16:48.607
  • Of times.
  • 00:16:48.607 --> 00:16:49.942
  • The best known verse about the rapture is 1 thessalonians 4:17
  • 00:16:49.942 --> 00:16:55.147
  • That says, "the lord himself will descend from heaven with a
  • 00:16:55.147 --> 00:16:58.650
  • Shout, with the voice of the archangel, and the trump
  • 00:16:58.650 --> 00:17:01.787
  • Of god.
  • 00:17:01.787 --> 00:17:03.155
  • The dead in christ will rise first.
  • 00:17:03.155 --> 00:17:04.957
  • And we which are alive and remaining shall be caught up
  • 00:17:04.957 --> 00:17:07.726
  • Together with them in the clouds.
  • 00:17:07.726 --> 00:17:09.528
  • And so shall we ever be with the lord.
  • 00:17:09.528 --> 00:17:12.398
  • Therefore comfort one another with these words."
  • 00:17:12.398 --> 00:17:16.969
  • So, i still don't understand.
  • 00:17:16.969 --> 00:17:18.337
  • The rapture is a future event when christ himself will descend
  • 00:17:18.337 --> 00:17:23.442
  • From heaven as he promised, and in the blink of an eye, or as
  • 00:17:23.442 --> 00:17:27.513
  • The bible says, the twinkling of an eye, everything will change.
  • 00:17:27.513 --> 00:17:31.316
  • Those who are in the grave will rise again.
  • 00:17:31.316 --> 00:17:34.153
  • Okay, this is the bodily resurrection.
  • 00:17:34.153 --> 00:17:37.956
  • What happens to a christian when they die?
  • 00:17:37.956 --> 00:17:39.958
  • Their soul goes into heaven, but there's going to be a
  • 00:17:39.958 --> 00:17:42.561
  • Bodily resurrection.
  • 00:17:42.561 --> 00:17:44.830
  • "greg, are you actually saying bodies will come out of
  • 00:17:44.830 --> 00:17:46.765
  • The grave?"
  • 00:17:46.765 --> 00:17:48.100
  • That's exactly what i'm saying because that's what the
  • 00:17:48.100 --> 00:17:49.868
  • Bible says.
  • 00:17:49.868 --> 00:17:51.437
  • As job said, "in my flesh i will see god."
  • 00:17:51.437 --> 00:17:55.040
  • So your loved ones who are lying in graves right now, one day god
  • 00:17:55.040 --> 00:17:58.577
  • Will resurrect their body.
  • 00:17:58.577 --> 00:17:59.912
  • "when will that happen?"
  • 00:17:59.912 --> 00:18:01.246
  • At the rapture.
  • 00:18:01.246 --> 00:18:02.614
  • So, the dead in christ rise first, and we which are alive
  • 00:18:02.614 --> 00:18:05.651
  • And remaining shall be caught up together with them.
  • 00:18:05.651 --> 00:18:08.554
  • With who?
  • 00:18:08.554 --> 00:18:09.922
  • With loved ones who have preceded us.
  • 00:18:09.922 --> 00:18:11.557
  • So, imagine this for a moment.
  • 00:18:11.557 --> 00:18:12.925
  • You're just going about your business, ordering in-n-out
  • 00:18:12.925 --> 00:18:15.928
  • Burger animal style and extra crispy fries.
  • 00:18:15.928 --> 00:18:21.967
  • And all of a sudden, you're in heaven.
  • 00:18:21.967 --> 00:18:24.136
  • You're saying, "what happened to my burger?"
  • 00:18:24.136 --> 00:18:25.537
  • I don't know.
  • 00:18:25.537 --> 00:18:27.272
  • I don't care.
  • 00:18:27.272 --> 00:18:28.674
  • Maybe you take it with you.
  • 00:18:28.674 --> 00:18:30.976
  • Maybe there's something better than in-n-out burgers in heaven,
  • 00:18:30.976 --> 00:18:33.579
  • I'm sure.
  • 00:18:33.579 --> 00:18:34.947
  • But whatever it is, all of a sudden everything changes, your
  • 00:18:34.947 --> 00:18:38.317
  • Reality changes.
  • 00:18:38.317 --> 00:18:39.952
  • Maybe the loved one you were thinking about who has died in
  • 00:18:39.952 --> 00:18:44.323
  • Faith, well, suddenly, you'll be looking at them, talking to
  • 00:18:44.323 --> 00:18:48.127
  • Them again.
  • 00:18:48.127 --> 00:18:49.461
  • This is a great hope.
  • 00:18:49.461 --> 00:18:50.829
  • Now, could this happen in our generation?
  • 00:18:50.829 --> 00:18:52.331
  • Yes.
  • 00:18:52.331 --> 00:18:53.665
  • Will it?
  • 00:18:53.665 --> 00:18:55.033
  • I don't know, but i hope so.
  • 00:18:55.033 --> 00:18:56.602
  • And i think we need to be ready for it because i do believe with
  • 00:18:56.602 --> 00:18:59.638
  • The events that are happening before our very eyes right now,
  • 00:18:59.638 --> 00:19:03.442
  • It could happen at any time.
  • 00:19:03.442 --> 00:19:05.177
  • So, why is there a rapture?
  • 00:19:05.177 --> 00:19:08.013
  • The context of paul's teaching on the rapture was a response to
  • 00:19:08.013 --> 00:19:12.417
  • The believers in thessalonica who had loved ones die.
  • 00:19:12.417 --> 00:19:17.356
  • They were wondering if they would miss the rapture and if
  • 00:19:17.356 --> 00:19:20.092
  • They would ever see them again.
  • 00:19:20.092 --> 00:19:21.827
  • So, in 1 thessalonians 4:13, paul says, "brothers, i don't
  • 00:19:21.827 --> 00:19:25.831
  • Want you to be uninformed about those who have died, so you
  • 00:19:25.831 --> 00:19:29.668
  • Grieve as those who have no hope."
  • 00:19:29.668 --> 00:19:34.540
  • See, when we lose a loved one, we grieve.
  • 00:19:34.540 --> 00:19:37.910
  • Christians grieve.
  • 00:19:37.910 --> 00:19:39.711
  • Christians mourn.
  • 00:19:39.711 --> 00:19:42.047
  • Sometimes people say, "well, if they were a christian, you
  • 00:19:42.047 --> 00:19:44.016
  • Shouldn't mourn, you shouldn't cry, they're in heaven."
  • 00:19:44.016 --> 00:19:46.451
  • True, they're in heaven, but i--not only should i mourn, but
  • 00:19:46.451 --> 00:19:50.088
  • I think it's really important to mourn.
  • 00:19:50.088 --> 00:19:52.457
  • When i talk to people who've lost a loved one, i encourage
  • 00:19:52.457 --> 00:19:55.027
  • Them to weep.
  • 00:19:55.027 --> 00:19:56.395
  • I encourage them to cry.
  • 00:19:56.395 --> 00:19:58.330
  • The bible says, "there's a time to laugh and there's a time
  • 00:19:58.330 --> 00:20:01.500
  • To cry."
  • 00:20:01.500 --> 00:20:02.834
  • The depth of your sorrow is an indication of the depth of
  • 00:20:02.834 --> 00:20:06.738
  • Your love.
  • 00:20:06.738 --> 00:20:09.174
  • Even when stephen died, the first martyr of the church, we
  • 00:20:09.174 --> 00:20:12.744
  • Read godly men mourned over him.
  • 00:20:12.744 --> 00:20:16.348
  • "but didn't stephen go to heaven?"
  • 00:20:16.348 --> 00:20:17.916
  • Oh, yes, he did.
  • 00:20:17.916 --> 00:20:19.284
  • He even was given a glimpse of heaven before he died.
  • 00:20:19.284 --> 00:20:22.120
  • But still, they mourned because they were sorry.
  • 00:20:22.120 --> 00:20:24.523
  • But here's the difference between the grief of a christian
  • 00:20:24.523 --> 00:20:27.793
  • And the grief of a non-christian.
  • 00:20:27.793 --> 00:20:29.962
  • We grieve hopefully, they grieve hopelessly.
  • 00:20:29.962 --> 00:20:34.266
  • And here's why we grieve hopefully, because we know we
  • 00:20:34.266 --> 00:20:38.437
  • Will see our loved ones again.
  • 00:20:38.437 --> 00:20:40.739
  • That's a big deal.
  • 00:20:40.739 --> 00:20:42.908
  • They're not just a part of our past, they're also a part of
  • 00:20:42.908 --> 00:20:45.410
  • Our future.
  • 00:20:45.410 --> 00:20:47.012
  • So, when we have a loved one who has passed on before us, we
  • 00:20:47.012 --> 00:20:50.048
  • Don't say goodbye.
  • 00:20:50.048 --> 00:20:53.318
  • We say, "i'll see you later.
  • 00:20:53.318 --> 00:20:55.687
  • I'll see you later," because you will.
  • 00:20:55.687 --> 00:20:58.690
  • That's the hope of the rapture.
  • 00:20:58.690 --> 00:21:00.058
  • So, it could be even sooner than we think, but that's up to god.
  • 00:21:00.058 --> 00:21:04.997
  • Jesus's last statement in the bible is, "behold, i am coming
  • 00:21:04.997 --> 00:21:09.735
  • Quickly," in revelation 22.
  • 00:21:09.735 --> 00:21:12.871
  • The word behold means pay attention.
  • 00:21:12.871 --> 00:21:15.374
  • So, he's saying, "hey, hey, listen to what i'm saying
  • 00:21:15.374 --> 00:21:17.276
  • Right now.
  • 00:21:17.276 --> 00:21:19.077
  • I am coming quickly."
  • 00:21:19.077 --> 00:21:22.014
  • And we read that and they say, "well, quickly.
  • 00:21:22.014 --> 00:21:25.017
  • When'd you say this?
  • 00:21:25.017 --> 00:21:26.385
  • Two thousand years ago?
  • 00:21:26.385 --> 00:21:27.719
  • I guess your definition of quickly is different than mine."
  • 00:21:27.719 --> 00:21:31.290
  • Sort of like when my wife and i are leaving the house.
  • 00:21:31.290 --> 00:21:35.027
  • I'll say, "are you ready?" she says, "i'm ready."
  • 00:21:35.027 --> 00:21:38.530
  • That has a different meaning to her than it does to me.
  • 00:21:38.530 --> 00:21:42.334
  • "ready" to me means we're getting in the car,
  • 00:21:42.334 --> 00:21:44.136
  • We're leaving.
  • 00:21:44.136 --> 00:21:45.470
  • "ready" to her means "i'm gonna go upstairs,
  • 00:21:45.470 --> 00:21:47.139
  • I'm gonna change my outfit possibly,
  • 00:21:47.139 --> 00:21:50.275
  • I'm gonna straighten up a little bit
  • 00:21:50.275 --> 00:21:51.610
  • Before i make it to the car."
  • 00:21:51.610 --> 00:21:52.944
  • I mean, there are times when i'm sitting in the car--
  • 00:21:52.944 --> 00:21:55.714
  • "are you co--" "i'm coming."
  • 00:21:55.714 --> 00:21:57.049
  • And i'm waiting.
  • 00:21:57.049 --> 00:21:58.383
  • It seems like an hour. it's probably three minutes.
  • 00:21:58.383 --> 00:22:01.286
  • I've actually gone in the house.
  • 00:22:01.286 --> 00:22:03.088
  • "what is it you do in those final moments?"
  • 00:22:03.088 --> 00:22:05.624
  • But what she does, she straightens, straightens,
  • 00:22:05.624 --> 00:22:07.859
  • Straightens, straightens everything, okay.
  • 00:22:07.859 --> 00:22:11.163
  • That's why i have a neat house. okay, that's great.
  • 00:22:11.163 --> 00:22:14.099
  • So, what did jesus mean when he said, "i'm coming quickly?"
  • 00:22:14.166 --> 00:22:18.103
  • The word quickly means suddenly, not necessarily soon.
  • 00:22:18.103 --> 00:22:23.575
  • The word from the greek means suddenly, swiftly, in the blink
  • 00:22:23.575 --> 00:22:26.411
  • Of an eye.
  • 00:22:26.411 --> 00:22:27.746
  • In other words, when jesus comes, it's fast and
  • 00:22:27.746 --> 00:22:29.915
  • Without warning.
  • 00:22:29.915 --> 00:22:31.283
  • Another way of putting it is you could just say the coming of
  • 00:22:31.283 --> 00:22:33.952
  • Christ is imminent.
  • 00:22:33.952 --> 00:22:35.320
  • It could happen at any moment.
  • 00:22:35.320 --> 00:22:37.322
  • Therefore, we should live in a constant state of expectancy.
  • 00:22:37.322 --> 00:22:42.094
  • Okay, so, a good litmus test of where you are at spiritually is
  • 00:22:42.094 --> 00:22:49.468
  • How you react to this.
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  • If you hear this and say, "i love it.
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  • I hope he comes today," i would say you're probably walking
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  • With god.
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  • However, if your reaction is the very opposite of that, and you
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  • Would have a sense of apprehension or dread, that is
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  • Not a good thing.
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  • I love john's response.
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  • Jesus says, "behold him coming quickly."
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  • John says, "even so, come, lord jesus."
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  • That's great.
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  • Amen.
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  • Come, lord jesus.
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  • Let's say that together.
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  • Come, lord jesus.
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  • One more time.
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  • Come, lord jesus.
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  • That's how we should feel.
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  • Lord, i'm ready for you to come.
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  • So, is that how you are feeling and living right now?
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  • Remember when we were kids and we would play hide and seek?
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  • I hope you don't still play that in your 50s, but maybe you do.
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  • But, you know, you count to 20 or whatever and then you say,
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  • "ready or not, here i come."
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  • One day jesus is gonna effectively say the same thing,
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  • "ready or not, here i come."
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  • I used to play it with my grandkids when they were
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  • Very little.
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  • One of them is sitting in the front row.
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  • Remember, riley?
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  • And they would hide, but i always could find them because
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  • They would hide behind the curtains and i could see
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  • Their feet.
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  • "here i come," and there they are laughing out loud, so it's
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  • Very easy to find.
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  • They love that.
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  • "let's do it again, papa."
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  • "okay, let's do it again."
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  • I count to 20, come back, they're hiding in the
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  • Same place.
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  • That's us trying to hide from god.
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  • Nothing is hidden from god.
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  • Everything is known to him, so we need to be ready.
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  • So, my question to you is if jesus came back today, would you
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  • Be ready?
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  • If not, why not?
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  • That needs to be resolved.
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  • Coming back to the lord's statement in john 14.
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  • He said, "at my father's house are many mansions.
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  • If it were not so, i would have told you.
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  • If i go, i will come again and receive you to myself.
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  • I prepared a place for you."
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  • And then he says, "and where i go you know in the way
  • 00:24:56.294 --> 00:24:58.497
  • You know."
  • 00:24:58.497 --> 00:24:59.898
  • Thomas says, "we don't know where you're going and we don't
  • 00:24:59.898 --> 00:25:03.568
  • Know the way."
  • 00:25:03.568 --> 00:25:04.936
  • And jesus said, you know the verse, "i am the way, the truth,
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  • And the life.
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  • No man comes of the father but by me."
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  • How can i get right with god?
  • 00:25:13.512 --> 00:25:15.280
  • How can i know with certainty that when christ comes, i will
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  • Be ready to meet him?
  • 00:25:18.917 --> 00:25:20.418
  • By putting my faith in jesus christ as my savior and lord who
  • 00:25:20.418 --> 00:25:25.824
  • Died on the cross for my sin and rose again from the dead.
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  • And if i will turn from my sin and put my faith in him,
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  • I'm forgiven.
  • 00:25:33.932 --> 00:25:35.300
  • Greg: there are so many things to be worried about right now,
  • 00:25:38.703 --> 00:25:41.006
  • Aren't there?
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  • Worrying about terrorism, worry about your personal safety,
  • 00:25:42.374 --> 00:25:45.944
  • Violent crime, the economy, the list goes on.
  • 00:25:45.944 --> 00:25:49.080
  • Here's what the bible says, "don't worry about anything.
  • 00:25:49.080 --> 00:25:52.884
  • Pray about everything."
  • 00:25:52.884 --> 00:25:55.153
  • Turn your panic into prayer.
  • 00:25:55.153 --> 00:25:58.290
  • Jesus said, "come unto me, all of you that are laboring and are
  • 00:25:58.290 --> 00:26:01.393
  • Heavy laden, i will give you rest."
  • 00:26:01.393 --> 00:26:03.962
  • Give your burdens, give your problems over to god and let him
  • 00:26:03.962 --> 00:26:08.600
  • Give you his peace in your heart.
  • 00:26:08.600 --> 00:26:12.771
  • Let me send for you at no charge, what i call a new
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  • Believer's bible to help you grow in a relationship with god
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  • And learn how to turn your panic into prayer and your worry
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  • Into worship.
  • 00:26:25.617 --> 00:26:27.519
  • Greg: you know, when you say to a new believer, "start reading
  • 00:26:31.723 --> 00:26:34.960
  • The bible," but they don't know where to start, do they?
  • 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:38.296
  • So, we have a special edition of the bible
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  • Called the new believer's bible.
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  • I wrote thousands of notes for it, and i sort of see it as what
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  • I would do if i was sitting down with a person over a cup of
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  • Coffee and explaining the basics of the christian life to them.
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  • There's over 10 million copies of this bible in print, but
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