1. TBN
  2. Programs
  3. harvest pastor greg laurie
  4. Episodes
  5. Greg Laurie - Jesus and the Pretender
Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Jesus and the Pretender

February 9, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Jesus and the Pretender
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#WordofGod #Heaven #Parable #Patience #WalkwithGod #Belief #Truth #Joy #Family #Struggle #GregLaurie

Closed captions

Show Timecode
Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Jesus and the Pretender | February 9, 2026
  • ...
  • 00:00:00.633 --> 00:00:01.333
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:00:02.134 --> 00:00:05.904
  • Greg laurie: the bible says whom the lord loves he chastens.
  • 00:00:06.005 --> 00:00:07.039
  • You want your conscience to work.
  • 00:00:08.707 --> 00:00:12.011
  • Judas apparently didn't have a conscience at all, and he was
  • 00:00:12.011 --> 00:00:16.648
  • A pretender.
  • 00:00:16.648 --> 00:00:18.751
  • You know, some people do a good job of fooling others.
  • 00:00:18.751 --> 00:00:21.954
  • You say, "no one really knows who i am.
  • 00:00:21.954 --> 00:00:24.656
  • I fooled everybody."
  • 00:00:24.656 --> 00:00:26.125
  • Okay.
  • 00:00:26.125 --> 00:00:27.459
  • You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool
  • 00:00:27.459 --> 00:00:31.230
  • Some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool jesus
  • 00:00:31.230 --> 00:00:35.534
  • Any of the time.
  • 00:00:35.534 --> 00:00:37.302
  • You're fooling yourself.
  • 00:00:37.302 --> 00:00:39.238
  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
  • 00:00:42.775 --> 00:00:44.843
  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
  • 00:00:44.843 --> 00:00:50.049
  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
  • 00:00:50.049 --> 00:00:52.551
  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
  • 00:00:52.551 --> 00:01:01.193
  • Greg: so i read this story of an elderly man who went on a cruise
  • 00:01:05.431 --> 00:01:08.500
  • Ship, which is no surprise because, as they say, cruises
  • 00:01:08.500 --> 00:01:12.938
  • Are for the newly married and the nearly buried, right?
  • 00:01:12.938 --> 00:01:17.976
  • A lot of older people go on cruises.
  • 00:01:17.976 --> 00:01:20.312
  • I've been on a few cruises and i can attest to this fact.
  • 00:01:20.312 --> 00:01:23.649
  • So elderly man's on the cruise ship.
  • 00:01:23.649 --> 00:01:26.018
  • A really big storm came, and as it turns out a woman was
  • 00:01:26.018 --> 00:01:29.955
  • Standing near the railing and she fell over the side.
  • 00:01:29.955 --> 00:01:33.592
  • Immediately someone bolted across the deck, splashed in the
  • 00:01:33.592 --> 00:01:37.229
  • Ocean, grabbed hold of her, and they were both rescued; and
  • 00:01:37.229 --> 00:01:41.133
  • Everyone was shocked to find that the person who rescued her
  • 00:01:41.133 --> 00:01:44.870
  • Was that elderly man.
  • 00:01:44.870 --> 00:01:47.239
  • They decided to throw a party that night in his honor.
  • 00:01:47.239 --> 00:01:50.776
  • Everyone was gathered and he was there, and they said, "why don't
  • 00:01:50.776 --> 00:01:53.979
  • You come up and say a few words?"
  • 00:01:53.979 --> 00:01:56.081
  • And the old dude got up there and looked out over the crowd
  • 00:01:56.081 --> 00:01:59.284
  • And he says, "i have one question."
  • 00:01:59.284 --> 00:02:01.687
  • There was sort of an embarrassed silence, and then he said, "who
  • 00:02:01.687 --> 00:02:05.624
  • Pushed me?"
  • 00:02:05.624 --> 00:02:08.427
  • And i was that man.
  • 00:02:08.427 --> 00:02:09.995
  • No, not really.
  • 00:02:09.995 --> 00:02:11.363
  • Okay.
  • 00:02:11.363 --> 00:02:12.698
  • So judas iscariot.
  • 00:02:12.698 --> 00:02:14.032
  • I wanna talk about him a little bit.
  • 00:02:14.032 --> 00:02:16.135
  • Some would say he was pushed into doing what he did, but as
  • 00:02:16.135 --> 00:02:20.472
  • We look at him in scripture we find he was complicit.
  • 00:02:20.472 --> 00:02:25.144
  • In fact, he even in effect initiated the betrayal of jesus
  • 00:02:25.144 --> 00:02:31.250
  • Christ, and it's so amazing because he was handpicked by
  • 00:02:31.250 --> 00:02:34.987
  • Christ himself.
  • 00:02:34.987 --> 00:02:36.889
  • He spent over 3 years walking and talking with jesus; having
  • 00:02:36.889 --> 00:02:42.594
  • Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with jesus; seeing with his own
  • 00:02:42.594 --> 00:02:46.665
  • Eyes the miracles of our lord: the feeding of the 5,000, jesus
  • 00:02:46.665 --> 00:02:51.503
  • Walking on the water, christ raising lazarus from the dead.
  • 00:02:51.503 --> 00:02:56.141
  • He heard with his own ears the teachings of jesus: the sermon
  • 00:02:56.141 --> 00:02:59.811
  • On the mount, the olivet discourse, which we looked at
  • 00:02:59.811 --> 00:03:03.415
  • Last time briefly.
  • 00:03:03.415 --> 00:03:05.450
  • He saw so much and yet his heart grew irreparably hard, and the
  • 00:03:05.450 --> 00:03:10.689
  • Bible actually says satan entered his heart.
  • 00:03:10.689 --> 00:03:15.694
  • His very name is synonymous with evil and treachery, but someone
  • 00:03:15.694 --> 00:03:20.566
  • Suggests that he's actually misunderstood.
  • 00:03:20.566 --> 00:03:24.403
  • He wasn't a zero, he was more of a hero who really was trying to
  • 00:03:24.403 --> 00:03:28.440
  • Help christ accomplish his objective.
  • 00:03:28.440 --> 00:03:31.510
  • Well, nothing could be further from the truth.
  • 00:03:31.510 --> 00:03:33.979
  • The fact of the matter is judas was probably the most wicked man
  • 00:03:33.979 --> 00:03:38.984
  • Who ever lived.
  • 00:03:38.984 --> 00:03:41.053
  • Now, he actually ended up helping to fulfill the purpose
  • 00:03:41.053 --> 00:03:44.756
  • Of god, but that does not vindicate him nor does it
  • 00:03:44.756 --> 00:03:48.026
  • Justify what he did.
  • 00:03:48.026 --> 00:03:49.661
  • But in a curious, unusual moment in history, two forces were
  • 00:03:49.661 --> 00:03:54.700
  • Working together at the same time: evil and good, god
  • 00:03:54.700 --> 00:03:59.171
  • And satan.
  • 00:03:59.171 --> 00:04:00.505
  • Satan wanted jesus dead.
  • 00:04:00.505 --> 00:04:02.941
  • Satan wanted to stop the ministry of christ.
  • 00:04:02.941 --> 00:04:06.311
  • Satan entered the heart of judas iscariot.
  • 00:04:06.311 --> 00:04:09.514
  • Satan was involved in the authorities bringing about the
  • 00:04:09.514 --> 00:04:13.151
  • Death of jesus, but god was involved as well because all of
  • 00:04:13.151 --> 00:04:17.189
  • Those old testament passages from genesis on were pointing to
  • 00:04:17.189 --> 00:04:21.793
  • The messiah.
  • 00:04:21.793 --> 00:04:23.161
  • They were pointing to a suffering savior, describing in
  • 00:04:23.161 --> 00:04:27.132
  • Graphic detail how he would suffer.
  • 00:04:27.132 --> 00:04:29.835
  • Psalm 22 says they would pierce his hands and his feet.
  • 00:04:29.835 --> 00:04:33.639
  • Isaiah 53 said he'd be so beaten and disfigured you wouldn't even
  • 00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:37.909
  • Be able to tell he was a man.
  • 00:04:37.909 --> 00:04:39.645
  • It was all pointing to christ.
  • 00:04:39.645 --> 00:04:41.213
  • So the bible says it pleased the father to bruise him.
  • 00:04:41.213 --> 00:04:45.617
  • That does not mean that the father in heaven took pleasure
  • 00:04:45.617 --> 00:04:48.754
  • In the death of his son, but what it does mean is the father
  • 00:04:48.754 --> 00:04:52.958
  • Took pleasure in what the death of the son accomplished.
  • 00:04:52.958 --> 00:04:57.262
  • That is your salvation and mine as well.
  • 00:04:57.262 --> 00:05:01.833
  • But all of these things that--judas saw but yet he
  • 00:05:01.833 --> 00:05:04.836
  • Turned against the lord.
  • 00:05:04.836 --> 00:05:06.171
  • There's a fascinating passage.
  • 00:05:06.171 --> 00:05:07.506
  • Matthew 26, verse 14 says, "judas iscariot, one of the
  • 00:05:07.506 --> 00:05:11.743
  • Twelve disciples, went to the leading priests and said, 'how
  • 00:05:11.743 --> 00:05:15.747
  • Much will you pay me to betray jesus to you?'
  • 00:05:15.747 --> 00:05:20.152
  • They gave him thirty pieces of silver.
  • 00:05:20.152 --> 00:05:22.587
  • From that time on, judas began looking for the right time and
  • 00:05:22.587 --> 00:05:26.692
  • Place to betray jesus."
  • 00:05:26.692 --> 00:05:28.026
  • So he's not a hapless victim.
  • 00:05:28.026 --> 00:05:31.330
  • It's his idea.
  • 00:05:31.330 --> 00:05:32.798
  • "hey, i think i'll betray jesus.
  • 00:05:32.798 --> 00:05:35.534
  • How much can i make off of it?"
  • 00:05:35.534 --> 00:05:37.336
  • And he spent the rest of his time looking for the right time
  • 00:05:37.336 --> 00:05:42.307
  • And place to betray christ.
  • 00:05:42.307 --> 00:05:44.276
  • But here's the weird thing about judas.
  • 00:05:44.276 --> 00:05:46.611
  • You would have never suspected him.
  • 00:05:46.611 --> 00:05:48.246
  • In fact, later we'll see that christ says, "one of you is
  • 00:05:48.246 --> 00:05:51.316
  • Going to betray me."
  • 00:05:51.316 --> 00:05:53.018
  • If judas was as obvious as people think he was, everyone
  • 00:05:53.018 --> 00:05:56.321
  • Would have stood up and in unison pointed and said, "it's
  • 00:05:56.321 --> 00:05:59.324
  • Him, isn't it?"
  • 00:05:59.324 --> 00:06:01.059
  • You know, you see paintings of the disciples, and you can
  • 00:06:01.059 --> 00:06:05.330
  • Always pick judas out.
  • 00:06:05.330 --> 00:06:06.698
  • He's a creepy-looking guy.
  • 00:06:06.698 --> 00:06:08.367
  • He's a sinister looking one.
  • 00:06:08.367 --> 00:06:10.102
  • It was the very opposite.
  • 00:06:10.102 --> 00:06:12.003
  • He was the one that actually appeared more virtuous than the
  • 00:06:12.003 --> 00:06:15.474
  • Others by design.
  • 00:06:15.474 --> 00:06:17.676
  • That was what he wanted.
  • 00:06:17.676 --> 00:06:19.911
  • He wanted you to think he was the most godly guy when in
  • 00:06:19.911 --> 00:06:23.448
  • Reality he was the most ungodly man who ever walked this planet
  • 00:06:23.448 --> 00:06:27.753
  • Of ours.
  • 00:06:27.753 --> 00:06:29.388
  • So here's judas.
  • 00:06:29.388 --> 00:06:31.723
  • He's getting ready to betray the lord, and judas was really what
  • 00:06:31.723 --> 00:06:36.895
  • I would call the textbook case of a hypocrite.
  • 00:06:36.895 --> 00:06:41.299
  • Now, we throw the word hypocrite around a lot.
  • 00:06:41.299 --> 00:06:43.835
  • I think we misunderstand it frankly.
  • 00:06:43.835 --> 00:06:46.471
  • You know, if you mess up a little one--bit, someone says,
  • 00:06:46.471 --> 00:06:48.607
  • "you're a hypocrite."
  • 00:06:48.607 --> 00:06:50.175
  • Well, realistically all of us have moments of
  • 00:06:50.175 --> 00:06:52.944
  • Hypocrisy, right?
  • 00:06:52.944 --> 00:06:54.880
  • But i think people use that as an excuse.
  • 00:06:54.880 --> 00:06:57.349
  • "well, i don't wanna go to church.
  • 00:06:57.349 --> 00:06:58.950
  • The church is full of hypocrites."
  • 00:06:58.950 --> 00:07:01.186
  • Really?
  • 00:07:01.186 --> 00:07:02.554
  • Would you say, "i'm never going to a restaurant again because i
  • 00:07:02.554 --> 00:07:04.856
  • Had a bad meal in a restaurant one time?"
  • 00:07:04.856 --> 00:07:07.793
  • But yet we'll say, "i'll never go to church again because
  • 00:07:07.793 --> 00:07:10.429
  • There's too many hypocrites in the church."
  • 00:07:10.429 --> 00:07:12.631
  • And to that i say, well, come and join us because there's
  • 00:07:12.631 --> 00:07:15.534
  • Always room for one more.
  • 00:07:15.534 --> 00:07:18.837
  • "oh, well, i'm looking for a hypocrite-free church.
  • 00:07:18.837 --> 00:07:21.573
  • And when i find it, i'll join it."
  • 00:07:21.573 --> 00:07:23.575
  • Please don't because you'll ruin it.
  • 00:07:23.575 --> 00:07:26.678
  • The church is made up of flawed people like you and flawed
  • 00:07:26.678 --> 00:07:30.515
  • People like me.
  • 00:07:30.515 --> 00:07:31.850
  • But let me define hypocrite.
  • 00:07:31.850 --> 00:07:34.085
  • A hypocrite is not someone who professes to believe something
  • 00:07:34.085 --> 00:07:38.423
  • And then occasionally contradicts it.
  • 00:07:38.423 --> 00:07:41.793
  • That's called humanity, and we all do it.
  • 00:07:41.793 --> 00:07:44.596
  • A hypocrite is a person who's actually playing a part.
  • 00:07:44.596 --> 00:07:48.934
  • The technical definition of the word hypocrite is actually
  • 00:07:48.934 --> 00:07:52.571
  • Not negative.
  • 00:07:52.571 --> 00:07:54.339
  • It just means actor, a stage actor.
  • 00:07:54.339 --> 00:07:58.577
  • So that's who judas was.
  • 00:07:58.577 --> 00:08:00.579
  • He was playing the part of an apostle, he was playing the part
  • 00:08:00.579 --> 00:08:05.183
  • Of a believer, but in reality he was the very opposite of that.
  • 00:08:05.183 --> 00:08:10.021
  • In fact, jesus said of judas it would have been better if he had
  • 00:08:10.021 --> 00:08:13.959
  • Never been born, and jesus was the perfect example.
  • 00:08:13.959 --> 00:08:18.263
  • Never--jesus never lost his temper.
  • 00:08:18.263 --> 00:08:22.701
  • Jesus never was inconsistent.
  • 00:08:22.701 --> 00:08:25.704
  • Jesus never told a lie.
  • 00:08:25.704 --> 00:08:28.673
  • Jesus never had a single thought out of harmony with his father
  • 00:08:28.673 --> 00:08:33.678
  • And yet judas turns against him.
  • 00:08:33.678 --> 00:08:37.482
  • So now we find the disciples gathered in the upper room for
  • 00:08:37.482 --> 00:08:40.785
  • What we call the last supper, but they didn't know it was the
  • 00:08:40.785 --> 00:08:43.955
  • Last supper.
  • 00:08:43.955 --> 00:08:45.924
  • They just thought it was another dinner with jesus, but he was
  • 00:08:45.924 --> 00:08:49.060
  • Acting differently than he normally did.
  • 00:08:49.060 --> 00:08:52.297
  • He was very serious and he was about to say some very important
  • 00:08:52.297 --> 00:08:57.435
  • Things to all of them, including the fact that one of them was
  • 00:08:57.435 --> 00:09:00.972
  • Going to betray him.
  • 00:09:00.972 --> 00:09:03.008
  • Before he did that, he got down on his knees and he washed
  • 00:09:03.008 --> 00:09:06.611
  • Their feet.
  • 00:09:06.611 --> 00:09:07.946
  • Isn't that amazing?
  • 00:09:07.946 --> 00:09:09.314
  • That's what a servant would normally do.
  • 00:09:09.314 --> 00:09:10.815
  • He even washed the feet of judas iscariot.
  • 00:09:10.815 --> 00:09:14.019
  • I would not have washed judas' feet, i would have broken
  • 00:09:14.019 --> 00:09:17.022
  • Judas' feet.
  • 00:09:17.022 --> 00:09:19.024
  • "i know what you're gonna do."
  • 00:09:19.024 --> 00:09:20.358
  • No, he--jesus washed his feet, showing the love that christ was
  • 00:09:20.358 --> 00:09:25.063
  • Extending to judas to the very end.
  • 00:09:25.063 --> 00:09:27.933
  • So we pick the story up in matthew 26, verse 21.
  • 00:09:27.933 --> 00:09:32.270
  • "now as they were eating, he said, 'assuredly, i say to you,
  • 00:09:32.270 --> 00:09:35.874
  • One of you will betray me.'
  • 00:09:35.874 --> 00:09:37.809
  • And they were exceedingly sorrowful, and each one of them
  • 00:09:37.809 --> 00:09:40.412
  • Began to say to him, 'lord, is it i?'
  • 00:09:40.412 --> 00:09:42.914
  • And he answered, 'he who dipped his hand with me in the dish
  • 00:09:42.914 --> 00:09:46.418
  • Will betray me.
  • 00:09:46.418 --> 00:09:47.819
  • The son of man indeed goes just as it's written of him, but woe
  • 00:09:47.819 --> 00:09:51.790
  • To that man by whom the son of man is betrayed!
  • 00:09:51.790 --> 00:09:54.726
  • It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.'"
  • 00:09:54.726 --> 00:09:58.830
  • We'll stop there.
  • 00:09:58.830 --> 00:10:00.465
  • So jes--judas was actually sitting at the place of honor.
  • 00:10:00.465 --> 00:10:05.236
  • He was sitting at the left hand of jesus, john was at his right;
  • 00:10:05.236 --> 00:10:08.974
  • And jesus gives to judas a piece of the bread.
  • 00:10:08.974 --> 00:10:13.411
  • That's a very generous act.
  • 00:10:13.411 --> 00:10:15.447
  • And judas takes the bread and then jesus drops the bombshell.
  • 00:10:15.447 --> 00:10:18.516
  • "one of you is gonna betray me."
  • 00:10:18.516 --> 00:10:19.884
  • He identifies judas iscariot.
  • 00:10:19.884 --> 00:10:23.888
  • Now the lord makes his way to gethsemane.
  • 00:10:23.888 --> 00:10:26.992
  • Matthew 26, verse 39, "he went a little farther and fell on his
  • 00:10:26.992 --> 00:10:31.062
  • Face, and prayed, saying, 'o my father, if it's possible, let
  • 00:10:31.062 --> 00:10:34.766
  • This cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as i will, but
  • 00:10:34.766 --> 00:10:38.103
  • As you will.'
  • 00:10:38.103 --> 00:10:39.437
  • Then he came to the disciples and found them asleep, and he
  • 00:10:39.437 --> 00:10:42.240
  • Said to peter, 'what!
  • 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:43.608
  • Could you not watch for me--watch with me for one hour?
  • 00:10:43.608 --> 00:10:46.978
  • Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation.
  • 00:10:46.978 --> 00:10:50.281
  • For the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.'
  • 00:10:50.281 --> 00:10:53.685
  • Again, a second time, he went away and prayed, saying, 'o my
  • 00:10:53.685 --> 00:10:57.255
  • Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me unless i drink it,
  • 00:10:57.255 --> 00:11:01.726
  • Your will be done.'
  • 00:11:01.726 --> 00:11:03.395
  • And he came and found them asleep again, for their eyes
  • 00:11:03.395 --> 00:11:05.997
  • Were heavy.
  • 00:11:05.997 --> 00:11:07.365
  • So he left them, went away again, prayed the third time,
  • 00:11:07.365 --> 00:11:10.535
  • Saying the same words.
  • 00:11:10.535 --> 00:11:11.936
  • And he came to his disciples and said to them, 'are you still
  • 00:11:11.936 --> 00:11:15.674
  • Sleeping and resting?
  • 00:11:15.674 --> 00:11:17.709
  • Behold, the hour is at hand, and the son of man is being betrayed
  • 00:11:17.709 --> 00:11:21.680
  • Into the hands of sinners.
  • 00:11:21.680 --> 00:11:24.315
  • Rise, let us be going.
  • 00:11:24.315 --> 00:11:25.717
  • See, my betrayer is at hand.'
  • 00:11:25.717 --> 00:11:27.986
  • And while he was yet speaking, behold, judas, one of the
  • 00:11:27.986 --> 00:11:31.089
  • Twelve, with a great multitude with swords and clubs, came from
  • 00:11:31.089 --> 00:11:35.126
  • The chief priests and elders.
  • 00:11:35.126 --> 00:11:36.861
  • Now his betrayer had given them a sign, saying, 'whomever i
  • 00:11:36.861 --> 00:11:40.632
  • Kiss, he is the one; seize him.'
  • 00:11:40.632 --> 00:11:43.435
  • Immediately he went up to jesus and said, 'greetings, rabbi!'
  • 00:11:43.435 --> 00:11:47.405
  • And kissed him.
  • 00:11:47.405 --> 00:11:48.940
  • But jesus said to him, 'friend, why have you come?'"
  • 00:11:48.940 --> 00:11:54.045
  • Wow.
  • 00:11:54.045 --> 00:11:55.447
  • So here's jesus in the garden of gethsemane.
  • 00:11:55.447 --> 00:11:59.484
  • We can't even begin to fathom what he was going through at
  • 00:11:59.484 --> 00:12:02.187
  • This point.
  • 00:12:02.187 --> 00:12:03.521
  • He's a stone's throw from peter, james, and john.
  • 00:12:03.521 --> 00:12:06.991
  • They watch him fall on the ground crying out with anguish,
  • 00:12:06.991 --> 00:12:13.398
  • With tears, and literally with blood because dr. luke, a
  • 00:12:13.398 --> 00:12:18.136
  • Physician who also is the author of a gospel, said, "his sweat
  • 00:12:18.136 --> 00:12:21.806
  • Was as it were great drops of blood."
  • 00:12:21.806 --> 00:12:24.776
  • And i told you before this may have been a reference to what we
  • 00:12:24.776 --> 00:12:27.846
  • Now call hematidrosis.
  • 00:12:27.846 --> 00:12:31.216
  • When a person is under intense pressure, they have sweat
  • 00:12:31.216 --> 00:12:35.553
  • Combined with blood.
  • 00:12:35.553 --> 00:12:38.223
  • Jesus was sweating.
  • 00:12:38.223 --> 00:12:39.691
  • Why?
  • 00:12:39.691 --> 00:12:41.059
  • Because jesus knew the future.
  • 00:12:41.059 --> 00:12:42.393
  • I'm glad i don't know the future, but jesus did.
  • 00:12:42.393 --> 00:12:46.998
  • He knew what was coming.
  • 00:12:46.998 --> 00:12:48.399
  • He knew he was gonna be beaten beyond human recognition.
  • 00:12:48.399 --> 00:12:52.237
  • He knew they would rip his beard from his face.
  • 00:12:52.237 --> 00:12:55.507
  • He knew they would take a crown of thorns and press it on his
  • 00:12:55.507 --> 00:12:58.710
  • Forehead, causing lacerations.
  • 00:12:58.710 --> 00:13:01.679
  • He knew that they would take a roman whip, most likely the cat
  • 00:13:01.679 --> 00:13:04.749
  • O' nine tails, and whip into his back 39 times.
  • 00:13:04.749 --> 00:13:09.220
  • He knew they would pound spikes in his hands and feet, but i
  • 00:13:09.220 --> 00:13:12.157
  • Think the thing he recoiled from even more than all of that was
  • 00:13:12.157 --> 00:13:16.327
  • The knowledge that he who was sinless and holy and perfect was
  • 00:13:16.327 --> 00:13:23.968
  • About to take upon himself everything that was sinful and
  • 00:13:23.968 --> 00:13:27.772
  • Unholy and imperfect.
  • 00:13:27.772 --> 00:13:29.707
  • He was about to bear the sin of the world.
  • 00:13:29.707 --> 00:13:32.377
  • Listen, your sin's bad enough, then you add mine, then you add
  • 00:13:32.377 --> 00:13:37.115
  • Ours, then you add our generation, then you add
  • 00:13:37.115 --> 00:13:40.952
  • All generations.
  • 00:13:40.952 --> 00:13:42.554
  • You had all the stinking, rotten sin of humanity.
  • 00:13:42.554 --> 00:13:46.424
  • It's going to be poured on the holy son of god; and yes, from
  • 00:13:46.424 --> 00:13:50.528
  • That he recoiled.
  • 00:13:50.528 --> 00:13:52.230
  • He didn't wanna do it, but he knew there was no other way.
  • 00:13:52.230 --> 00:13:55.667
  • Thus, sweating blood he prays, "father, if there's any other
  • 00:13:55.667 --> 00:14:00.705
  • Way; nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done."
  • 00:14:00.705 --> 00:14:06.778
  • Sometimes god's will is not easy.
  • 00:14:06.778 --> 00:14:09.814
  • Sometimes we may not agree with god's will.
  • 00:14:09.814 --> 00:14:13.484
  • Other times we may not agree with it, but later in life we'll
  • 00:14:13.484 --> 00:14:16.921
  • Discover it was the right decision.
  • 00:14:16.921 --> 00:14:19.390
  • Of course it always is, but it takes us a while to come around.
  • 00:14:19.390 --> 00:14:23.027
  • I remember when i was younger i would fall in love with girls
  • 00:14:23.027 --> 00:14:26.798
  • All the time.
  • 00:14:26.798 --> 00:14:28.266
  • They didn't even know it.
  • 00:14:28.266 --> 00:14:30.268
  • I don't even think they knew i existed, as handsome as i was in
  • 00:14:30.268 --> 00:14:36.474
  • My own estimation.
  • 00:14:36.474 --> 00:14:39.677
  • So i met this one girl, this is after i became a christian, and
  • 00:14:39.677 --> 00:14:42.847
  • I thought, "she may be the one.
  • 00:14:42.847 --> 00:14:45.016
  • This may be the one i'm supposed to marry."
  • 00:14:45.016 --> 00:14:47.318
  • I didn't say that to her.
  • 00:14:47.318 --> 00:14:49.320
  • But i was very interested in her and she was not interested in me
  • 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.490
  • At all, and i told god, "lord, i think this is the one.
  • 00:14:52.490 --> 00:14:56.294
  • You have to speak to her heart."
  • 00:14:56.294 --> 00:14:57.795
  • Well, nothing happened, and she didn't even wanna see me at all.
  • 00:14:57.795 --> 00:15:02.333
  • So that was the end of that.
  • 00:15:02.333 --> 00:15:03.701
  • Then i met cathe, who i married, and now we've been happily
  • 00:15:03.701 --> 00:15:07.672
  • Married for well over 50 years despite the fact that she steals
  • 00:15:07.672 --> 00:15:16.381
  • Food from my plates.
  • 00:15:16.381 --> 00:15:18.516
  • But no--but god had his plan, and i look back and then i say,
  • 00:15:18.516 --> 00:15:22.220
  • "lord, thank you for not answering that prayer."
  • 00:15:22.220 --> 00:15:24.522
  • Have you ever prayed for something and the lord said no
  • 00:15:24.522 --> 00:15:27.725
  • And now you look back and you say, "lord, thank you for
  • 00:15:27.725 --> 00:15:30.161
  • Saying no?"
  • 00:15:30.161 --> 00:15:31.796
  • But the will of god isn't always easy; and it wasn't for jesus,
  • 00:15:31.796 --> 00:15:36.267
  • But he had to go through with this.
  • 00:15:36.267 --> 00:15:38.636
  • And so he's ready to face it.
  • 00:15:38.636 --> 00:15:40.872
  • It's interesting in--this time in gethsemane his first words
  • 00:15:40.872 --> 00:15:45.076
  • Were actually abba, father according to mark.
  • 00:15:45.076 --> 00:15:47.712
  • That's only in mark's gospel.
  • 00:15:47.712 --> 00:15:49.113
  • Abba, father.
  • 00:15:49.113 --> 00:15:50.515
  • And this is really tender because abba is like
  • 00:15:50.515 --> 00:15:56.321
  • Saying daddy.
  • 00:15:56.321 --> 00:15:58.056
  • When you go to israel today and you see little children with
  • 00:15:58.056 --> 00:16:01.392
  • Their mom and dad, they'll say abba, ima, which is their way of
  • 00:16:01.392 --> 00:16:05.163
  • Saying mommy, daddy--or daddy, mommy.
  • 00:16:05.163 --> 00:16:08.366
  • And so he's--actually here he is: "daddy.
  • 00:16:08.366 --> 00:16:11.602
  • Father.
  • 00:16:11.602 --> 00:16:12.937
  • Papa.
  • 00:16:12.937 --> 00:16:14.305
  • Abba."
  • 00:16:14.305 --> 00:16:15.640
  • Tenderness.
  • 00:16:15.640 --> 00:16:16.975
  • "if there's any other way, let this cup pass.
  • 00:16:16.975 --> 00:16:18.776
  • Nevertheless--" and so he's drinking this cup.
  • 00:16:18.776 --> 00:16:23.514
  • Isaiah called it the cup of his fury.
  • 00:16:23.514 --> 00:16:26.317
  • "you drank the dregs of the cup of trembling and drained
  • 00:16:26.317 --> 00:16:29.887
  • It out."
  • 00:16:29.887 --> 00:16:31.255
  • Have you ever drank anything that turned your stomach?
  • 00:16:31.255 --> 00:16:34.258
  • You took a swig of something.
  • 00:16:34.258 --> 00:16:35.727
  • "yeah, this milk looks good."
  • 00:16:35.727 --> 00:16:38.296
  • And you found out it wasn't.
  • 00:16:38.296 --> 00:16:40.865
  • Or something else that--christ was gonna drink this blo--this
  • 00:16:40.865 --> 00:16:44.602
  • Milk or--not milk.
  • 00:16:44.602 --> 00:16:46.004
  • He was gonna drink this cup.
  • 00:16:46.004 --> 00:16:47.472
  • Okay, so now here comes an army to arrest christ.
  • 00:16:47.472 --> 00:16:51.275
  • There may have been as many as 1,000.
  • 00:16:51.275 --> 00:16:53.144
  • You have the temple guard which could number up to 600.
  • 00:16:53.144 --> 00:16:56.280
  • Now you have the romans reinforcing it.
  • 00:16:56.280 --> 00:16:59.317
  • So you have all of these armed guards with swords and spears
  • 00:16:59.317 --> 00:17:03.454
  • And shields and torches coming to arrest a man who never broke
  • 00:17:03.454 --> 00:17:08.226
  • A single law, and they come to get him--and this is only in
  • 00:17:08.226 --> 00:17:12.296
  • John's gospel, but it really gives us an insight into what
  • 00:17:12.296 --> 00:17:15.400
  • Was really happening.
  • 00:17:15.400 --> 00:17:16.768
  • As they close in, judas says, "the one i kiss, he's the one,"
  • 00:17:16.768 --> 00:17:21.639
  • Which is interesting because didn't everybody know what jesus
  • 00:17:21.639 --> 00:17:25.410
  • Looked like?
  • 00:17:25.410 --> 00:17:26.778
  • I mean, you know, whenever you see a religious painting, you
  • 00:17:26.778 --> 00:17:28.813
  • Can always pick jesus out.
  • 00:17:28.813 --> 00:17:30.782
  • He's wearing a white robe and he has a blue sash, right?
  • 00:17:30.782 --> 00:17:34.218
  • Remember, the blue sash.
  • 00:17:34.218 --> 00:17:36.087
  • Maybe he has a lamb around his neck for good measure.
  • 00:17:36.087 --> 00:17:39.557
  • Maybe he's holding his staff or he's doing this.
  • 00:17:39.557 --> 00:17:42.226
  • I don't know where this came from.
  • 00:17:42.226 --> 00:17:44.328
  • "yeah, get the guy in the blue sash with the weird peace sign.
  • 00:17:44.328 --> 00:17:46.931
  • That's the one."
  • 00:17:46.931 --> 00:17:48.666
  • But did you know that christ was actually extraordinarily
  • 00:17:48.666 --> 00:17:53.137
  • Ordinary in physical appearance?
  • 00:17:53.137 --> 00:17:56.340
  • Actually, the scripture said he had no beauty that we should
  • 00:17:56.340 --> 00:17:59.977
  • Desire him.
  • 00:17:59.977 --> 00:18:01.345
  • He was an ordinary-looking man.
  • 00:18:01.345 --> 00:18:03.714
  • He did not glow in the dark.
  • 00:18:03.714 --> 00:18:06.584
  • He was not 10 feet tall.
  • 00:18:06.584 --> 00:18:09.387
  • He looked like any other man; thus, judas had to identify him.
  • 00:18:09.387 --> 00:18:13.591
  • He kisses him.
  • 00:18:13.591 --> 00:18:14.926
  • They come in now to arrest christ, but the--in john's
  • 00:18:14.926 --> 00:18:17.428
  • Gospel we read these words.
  • 00:18:17.428 --> 00:18:19.097
  • Jesus said, "who are you looking for?"
  • 00:18:19.097 --> 00:18:21.132
  • They said, "jesus of nazareth."
  • 00:18:21.132 --> 00:18:23.167
  • And he said, "i am.
  • 00:18:23.167 --> 00:18:25.436
  • I am."
  • 00:18:25.436 --> 00:18:26.771
  • Now, where have we heard that before?
  • 00:18:26.771 --> 00:18:28.840
  • In the book of exodus, moses at the burning bush.
  • 00:18:28.840 --> 00:18:32.844
  • Moses says, "who shall i say has sent me?"
  • 00:18:32.844 --> 00:18:35.446
  • God says, "i am that i am."
  • 00:18:35.446 --> 00:18:38.549
  • Didn't popeye used to say something like that, too?
  • 00:18:38.549 --> 00:18:41.185
  • "i am that i am."
  • 00:18:41.185 --> 00:18:42.520
  • You know, he was always mulley.
  • 00:18:42.520 --> 00:18:46.023
  • That has nothing to do with what i'm talking about.
  • 00:18:46.023 --> 00:18:47.859
  • But he says, "i am."
  • 00:18:47.859 --> 00:18:50.027
  • Okay, so here's what's fascinating.
  • 00:18:50.027 --> 00:18:52.497
  • The bible says they all fell backwards.
  • 00:18:52.497 --> 00:18:54.465
  • Imagine for a moment shields, swords, spears, torches and they
  • 00:18:54.465 --> 00:18:58.669
  • All fall back like a bunch of dominoes.
  • 00:18:58.669 --> 00:19:00.838
  • It's almost comical.
  • 00:19:00.838 --> 00:19:02.173
  • Boom, boom, boom.
  • 00:19:02.173 --> 00:19:03.541
  • They're falling on top of each other.
  • 00:19:03.541 --> 00:19:04.876
  • "i am."
  • 00:19:04.876 --> 00:19:06.244
  • And he could have said, "and you were.
  • 00:19:06.244 --> 00:19:07.745
  • Bye."
  • 00:19:07.745 --> 00:19:09.080
  • End of story.
  • 00:19:09.080 --> 00:19:11.082
  • With a mere statement from the lips of jesus, he could have
  • 00:19:11.082 --> 00:19:14.752
  • Eliminated them all.
  • 00:19:14.752 --> 00:19:16.220
  • Or with one word to his father, angels would have been
  • 00:19:16.220 --> 00:19:19.157
  • Dispatched, who would have happily delivered him from
  • 00:19:19.157 --> 00:19:22.126
  • These people.
  • 00:19:22.126 --> 00:19:23.494
  • But he did not do any of that.
  • 00:19:23.494 --> 00:19:26.531
  • "who are you seeking?"
  • 00:19:26.531 --> 00:19:27.865
  • "jesus of nazareth."
  • 00:19:27.865 --> 00:19:29.233
  • "i am," whereas it's translated, "i am he."
  • 00:19:29.233 --> 00:19:32.837
  • So now he's arrested.
  • 00:19:32.837 --> 00:19:34.605
  • Now, the way judas betrayed him with his kiss is so evil.
  • 00:19:34.605 --> 00:19:38.876
  • There were different ways they would kiss people back in
  • 00:19:38.876 --> 00:19:40.978
  • This culture.
  • 00:19:40.978 --> 00:19:43.047
  • Sometimes you would kiss someone on the feet.
  • 00:19:43.047 --> 00:19:44.849
  • A slave would kiss his master's feet.
  • 00:19:44.849 --> 00:19:47.852
  • Maybe someone would go to a king begging for mercy would kiss the
  • 00:19:47.852 --> 00:19:52.456
  • Feet of the king.
  • 00:19:52.456 --> 00:19:54.225
  • That's not what judas did.
  • 00:19:54.225 --> 00:19:56.160
  • Or you might kiss their cheek or the back of their hand, but that
  • 00:19:56.160 --> 00:20:00.898
  • Would imply relationship.
  • 00:20:00.898 --> 00:20:03.501
  • But jesus is kissed by judas, and in the original language
  • 00:20:03.501 --> 00:20:07.705
  • It's implied he kissed him repeatedly.
  • 00:20:07.705 --> 00:20:10.408
  • He kissed him over and over again, showing affection,
  • 00:20:10.408 --> 00:20:15.046
  • Showing devotion.
  • 00:20:15.046 --> 00:20:16.781
  • "this is the one."
  • 00:20:16.781 --> 00:20:18.149
  • And he kisses him and he kisses him again and he kisses him
  • 00:20:18.149 --> 00:20:20.785
  • Even again.
  • 00:20:20.785 --> 00:20:22.220
  • What hypocrisy this was.
  • 00:20:22.220 --> 00:20:24.855
  • It's so frightening that a person's heart could become so
  • 00:20:24.855 --> 00:20:28.125
  • Hard as to be able to go through these motions and yet betray
  • 00:20:28.125 --> 00:20:32.230
  • The lord.
  • 00:20:32.230 --> 00:20:33.831
  • But listen to what jesus said to judas in verse 50.
  • 00:20:33.831 --> 00:20:37.368
  • "friend, why have you come?"
  • 00:20:37.368 --> 00:20:40.338
  • Did jesus know why judas had come?
  • 00:20:40.338 --> 00:20:43.207
  • Yes, he had already identified him by name, but yet he says,
  • 00:20:43.207 --> 00:20:47.945
  • "friend, why have you come?"
  • 00:20:47.945 --> 00:20:49.280
  • It would have been better said, "fiend, why have you come?"
  • 00:20:49.280 --> 00:20:53.451
  • Why did jesus say that?
  • 00:20:53.451 --> 00:20:54.852
  • It was one last chance for judas to repent, but judas would have
  • 00:20:54.852 --> 00:21:01.592
  • None of it.
  • 00:21:01.592 --> 00:21:02.927
  • In fact, the scripture tells us that satan had entered
  • 00:21:02.927 --> 00:21:05.963
  • His heart.
  • 00:21:05.963 --> 00:21:07.298
  • Now, that is not said of any other person in the bible.
  • 00:21:07.298 --> 00:21:10.067
  • Yes, demons can inhabit a person, but satan literally
  • 00:21:10.067 --> 00:21:14.438
  • Entered the heart of judas iscariot; and he betrays the
  • 00:21:14.438 --> 00:21:19.243
  • Lord now, even though he was given one last chance to repent.
  • 00:21:19.243 --> 00:21:23.814
  • So how did things turn out for judas escargot?
  • 00:21:23.814 --> 00:21:29.387
  • Matthew 27, verse 2, "when they bound him and led him away and
  • 00:21:29.387 --> 00:21:34.325
  • Delivered him to pontius pilate the governor, judas, his
  • 00:21:34.325 --> 00:21:37.862
  • Betrayer, seeing that he had been condemned, was remorseful
  • 00:21:37.862 --> 00:21:43.000
  • And was brought back--and brought back the thirty pieces
  • 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:45.670
  • Of silver to the chief priests and elders, saying, 'i have
  • 00:21:45.670 --> 00:21:49.540
  • Sinned by betraying innocent blood.'
  • 00:21:49.540 --> 00:21:52.476
  • They said, 'what is that to us?
  • 00:21:52.476 --> 00:21:54.679
  • You see to it!'
  • 00:21:54.679 --> 00:21:56.013
  • And he threw down the pieces of silver and departed, and went
  • 00:21:56.013 --> 00:22:00.785
  • And hanged himself."
  • 00:22:00.785 --> 00:22:03.220
  • Tragic end to a tragic life.
  • 00:22:03.220 --> 00:22:06.924
  • By the way, the name judas means the son of waste.
  • 00:22:06.924 --> 00:22:10.494
  • Never name your sons judas.
  • 00:22:10.494 --> 00:22:12.963
  • "but it's a bible name."
  • 00:22:12.963 --> 00:22:14.332
  • Yeah, not a good one.
  • 00:22:14.332 --> 00:22:16.400
  • Son of waste.
  • 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.703
  • He could have been forgiven.
  • 00:22:18.703 --> 00:22:20.604
  • But it says he was remorseful.
  • 00:22:20.604 --> 00:22:23.374
  • "well, wasn't he turning from his sin?"
  • 00:22:23.374 --> 00:22:25.343
  • No, he was just sorry for the consequences of his sin.
  • 00:22:25.343 --> 00:22:29.380
  • There's a difference between remorse and repentance.
  • 00:22:29.380 --> 00:22:34.485
  • Remorse is being sorry after sinning and having to face
  • 00:22:34.485 --> 00:22:38.756
  • The consequences.
  • 00:22:38.756 --> 00:22:40.458
  • Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.
  • 00:22:40.458 --> 00:22:44.261
  • Let's say you're driving down the road, freeway, and you're
  • 00:22:44.261 --> 00:22:46.530
  • Breaking the speed limit and the chp lights you up.
  • 00:22:46.530 --> 00:22:50.134
  • You're sorry.
  • 00:22:50.134 --> 00:22:51.769
  • Sorry you broke the law?
  • 00:22:51.769 --> 00:22:53.104
  • No, sorry you didn't pay more attention.
  • 00:22:53.104 --> 00:22:55.740
  • No, when you're really remorseful, you'll be repentant.
  • 00:22:55.740 --> 00:22:58.776
  • Judas only felt sorry for the consequences of what he had
  • 00:22:58.776 --> 00:23:03.547
  • To face.
  • 00:23:03.547 --> 00:23:04.882
  • He was an actor, as i said.
  • 00:23:04.882 --> 00:23:06.417
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:23:06.417 --> 00:23:08.119
  • If you're a christian, you cannot live continuously in sin.
  • 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:13.124
  • I did not say that you would not sin because we all sin, and the
  • 00:23:13.124 --> 00:23:18.362
  • Bible says if we say we have no sin we deceive ourself and the
  • 00:23:18.362 --> 00:23:21.799
  • Truth is not in us.
  • 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:23.167
  • But you can't live in a pattern of sin.
  • 00:23:23.167 --> 00:23:26.203
  • 1 john 3:9 says whoever is born of god, which means born again,
  • 00:23:26.203 --> 00:23:31.776
  • Will not continue in sin because god's seed remains in him.
  • 00:23:31.776 --> 00:23:35.846
  • He cannot go on sinning because he's been born of god.
  • 00:23:35.846 --> 00:23:40.384
  • This means if you're a real christian and you sin you'll
  • 00:23:40.384 --> 00:23:45.322
  • Feel remorse, you'll feel guilt.
  • 00:23:45.322 --> 00:23:48.125
  • "oh, guilt's a bad thing."
  • 00:23:48.125 --> 00:23:49.460
  • No, guilt is not necessarily a bad thing.
  • 00:23:49.460 --> 00:23:51.662
  • Guilt may be an indication your conscience is working, sort of
  • 00:23:51.662 --> 00:23:56.200
  • Like a smoke alarm.
  • 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:58.202
  • So last night my smoke alarm went off at 12:30 in
  • 00:23:58.202 --> 00:24:01.472
  • The morning.
  • 00:24:01.472 --> 00:24:02.973
  • Why do smoke alarms never go--"well, it--was there
  • 00:24:02.973 --> 00:24:05.509
  • A fire?"
  • 00:24:05.509 --> 00:24:06.877
  • No, there was no fire.
  • 00:24:06.877 --> 00:24:08.212
  • It was a false alarm, and there's a little voice saying,
  • 00:24:08.212 --> 00:24:10.181
  • "there's smoke in your room."
  • 00:24:10.181 --> 00:24:12.349
  • Then it said, "you're going to die."
  • 00:24:12.349 --> 00:24:14.251
  • Like, "what?
  • 00:24:14.251 --> 00:24:15.619
  • What is it?"
  • 00:24:15.619 --> 00:24:16.954
  • No, it didn't say that, but it was very alarming, no pun
  • 00:24:16.954 --> 00:24:18.956
  • Intended, and i jumped up and had to turn it off.
  • 00:24:18.956 --> 00:24:22.893
  • It was a false alarm.
  • 00:24:22.893 --> 00:24:25.196
  • Why don't they go off at 12:30 in, you know, the afternoon?
  • 00:24:25.196 --> 00:24:28.666
  • It's always in the middle of the night.
  • 00:24:28.666 --> 00:24:30.234
  • Is that way for you too when there's a false alarm always in
  • 00:24:30.234 --> 00:24:32.903
  • The middle of the night?
  • 00:24:32.903 --> 00:24:34.238
  • So--but at least it kind of worked.
  • 00:24:34.238 --> 00:24:36.040
  • It was just not working that well.
  • 00:24:36.040 --> 00:24:38.509
  • But i guess it beats the alternative, which is a fire in
  • 00:24:38.509 --> 00:24:41.145
  • Your home or having no alarm at all.
  • 00:24:41.145 --> 00:24:43.781
  • So when you sin and you feel guilt and the alarm goes off, so
  • 00:24:43.781 --> 00:24:48.886
  • To speak; that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
  • 00:24:48.886 --> 00:24:51.388
  • The bible says whom the lord loves he chastens.
  • 00:24:51.388 --> 00:24:54.191
  • You want your conscience to work.
  • 00:24:54.191 --> 00:24:57.495
  • Judas apparently didn't have a conscience at all, and he was
  • 00:24:57.495 --> 00:25:02.132
  • A pretender.
  • 00:25:02.132 --> 00:25:04.235
  • You know, some people do a good job of fooling others.
  • 00:25:04.235 --> 00:25:07.438
  • You say, "no one really knows who i am.
  • 00:25:07.438 --> 00:25:10.140
  • I fooled everybody."
  • 00:25:10.140 --> 00:25:11.609
  • Okay.
  • 00:25:11.609 --> 00:25:12.943
  • You can fool all of the people some of the time, you can fool
  • 00:25:12.943 --> 00:25:16.714
  • Some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool jesus
  • 00:25:16.714 --> 00:25:21.018
  • Any of the time.
  • 00:25:21.018 --> 00:25:22.786
  • You're fooling yourself.
  • 00:25:22.786 --> 00:25:25.856
  • Greg: hi, my name is greg laurie.
  • 00:25:29.660 --> 00:25:31.028
  • I started searching for god at a very young age, and my search
  • 00:25:31.028 --> 00:25:36.066
  • Led me into a lot of wrong directions including drug use
  • 00:25:36.066 --> 00:25:39.970
  • That i almost destroyed my life completely.
  • 00:25:39.970 --> 00:25:42.706
  • But someone told me about jesus christ and it changed
  • 00:25:42.706 --> 00:25:47.111
  • My life forever.
  • 00:25:47.111 --> 00:25:48.479
  • And i want you to know that whatever course your life is on
  • 00:25:48.479 --> 00:25:51.215
  • Right now, it can change if you realize there's a god in heaven
  • 00:25:51.215 --> 00:25:55.019
  • Who loves you and he has a plan for your life.
  • 00:25:55.019 --> 00:25:58.923
  • I prayed this prayer to ask jesus into my life
  • 00:25:58.923 --> 00:26:01.959
  • At the age of 17, but here i am at the age of 70,
  • 00:26:01.959 --> 00:26:05.729
  • And i can tell you i made the best choice i ever could make.
  • 00:26:05.729 --> 00:26:09.199
  • You can make that same choice yourself.
  • 00:26:09.199 --> 00:26:11.502
  • You could just say, "jesus help me.
  • 00:26:11.502 --> 00:26:13.671
  • Forgive me of my sin.
  • 00:26:13.671 --> 00:26:15.372
  • I wanna go to heaven when i die.
  • 00:26:15.372 --> 00:26:17.241
  • I want a relationship with you."
  • 00:26:17.241 --> 00:26:19.977
  • If you would pray a prayer like that, god will hear you
  • 00:26:19.977 --> 00:26:22.646
  • And answer you.
  • 00:26:22.646 --> 00:26:25.783
  • Greg: you know, we say to a new believer, start reading the
  • 00:26:29.954 --> 00:26:33.490
  • Bible, but they don't know where to start, do they?
  • 00:26:33.490 --> 00:26:36.560
  • So we have a special edition of the bible called the new
  • 00:26:36.560 --> 00:26:40.798
  • Believer's bible.
  • 00:26:40.798 --> 00:26:42.433
  • I wrote thousands of notes for it, and i sort of see it as what
  • 00:26:42.433 --> 00:26:47.071
  • I would do if i was sitting down with a person over a cup of
  • 00:26:47.071 --> 00:26:50.140
  • Coffee and explaining the basics of the christian life to them.
  • 00:26:50.140 --> 00:26:54.979
  • There's over 10 million copies of this bible in print, but
  • 00:26:54.979 --> 00:26:58.749
  • Here's the exciting news.
  • 00:26:58.749 --> 00:27:00.718
  • We have personally given out 700,000 of these at no charge to
  • 00:27:00.718 --> 00:27:05.923
  • People to help them in their spiritual journey.
  • 00:27:05.923 --> 00:27:09.893
  • So we need your help to keep doing this.
  • 00:27:09.893 --> 00:27:12.830
  • So let's invest in the spiritual future of people that are going
  • 00:27:12.830 --> 00:27:17.001
  • To come to christ, who will get a copy of the new believer's
  • 00:27:17.001 --> 00:27:20.504
  • Bible for themselves.
  • 00:27:20.504 --> 00:27:22.106
  • Thank you for your financial support.
  • 00:27:22.106 --> 00:27:24.174
  • Together we can change lives.
  • 00:27:24.174 --> 00:27:24.174