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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Jesus and You

September 14, 2025 | 29:0

Greg Laurie - Jesus and You
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#Jesus #Worship #LoveofGod #God'sWill #Plan #Purpose #Future #Hope #Peace #Sin #Condemnation #Gospel #Salvation #Forgiveness #Repentance #Change

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Jesus and You | September 14, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: listen, everybody worships something.
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  • Some people worship things, some people worship relationships,
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  • Some people worship a career, and some people worship god.
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  • And i wonder, who is your god tonight?
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  • You have a god.
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  • And there might be something that's keeping you away from
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  • Jesus, and i'm telling you right now, whatever you give up to
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  • Follow jesus will be more than made up to you.
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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: welcome to the harvest crusade.
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  • Good to see all of you.
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  • You know, we have a big crowd here tonight,
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  • Thousands more are watching literally all around the world,
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  • But when god looks at a crowd,
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  • He sees an individual.
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  • Jesus sees you.
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  • Jesus cares about you.
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  • You know, it's a funny thing, people are so
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  • Enamored with super heroes.
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  • Did you know over $3 billion of our hard-earned money has been
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  • Spent on super hero movies from all the studios out there?
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  • And here's the thing, i hate to break this to you,
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  • These super heroes, they're not real.
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  • That was kind of a joe biden moment there,
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  • They're not real.
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  • I know aquaman can breathe under water and wonder woman has
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  • Super-human strength and the wolverine can heal rapidly from
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  • Injury--though he's a manicurist's worst nightmare.
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  • Imagine giving a mani and a pedi to wolverine.
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  • The hulk, he has super-human power,
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  • You just have to get him mad and super green.
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  • But they're fictional, they're not real.
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  • But there was a man who walked on our planet
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  • Who had unlimited power.
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  • He didn't breathe underwater, he walked on the water.
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  • [audience cheering]
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  • Greg: and his name was jesus christ,
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  • And he is the king of kings and he's the lord of lords,
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  • And he's in this place right now.
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  • He's here with us.
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  • You know, god--god can seem so unapproachable.
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  • He's so powerful, he's so mysterious, but jesus was god
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  • Walking among us.
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  • I heard a story about the little boy who was scared one night,
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  • And he called up from his bedroom to his father, "daddy,
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  • Daddy, i'm scared."
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  • The father said, "son, you're okay.
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  • God is with you."
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  • And then the little boy said, "but daddy, right now i need
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  • Someone with skin on."
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  • Jesus was god with skin on.
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  • Jesus was not just a good man, jesus was the god man.
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  • Jesus was god spelling himself out in a language we
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  • Could understand.
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  • God had come near.
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  • God had a face.
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  • You know, we like to celebrate certain people.
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  • If you're a powerful person on social media, you have millions
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  • Of followers, the guest of honor at a celebration that's called
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  • The man or woman of the year.
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  • Time magazine every year picks the person of the year.
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  • And every ten years, they pick the person of the decade, but
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  • There's only one person that literally divides human history
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  • In half, and that's jesus christ.
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  • There's never been anyone like him, and we're
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  • Fascinated by him.
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  • Seventy-seven percent of american teenagers, according to
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  • One survey, said, "want to know more about jesus."
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  • Three quarters of millennials say they're searching for a
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  • Purpose in life.
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  • Listen, you've come to the right place 'cause i want to talk to
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  • You tonight about jesus and you.
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  • And i wanna start with this.
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  • I know you've heard it before, but i gotta say it, people.
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  • God loves you.
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  • Jesus christ loves you.
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  • He really does.
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  • You say, "oh, but greg, he doesn't know me."
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  • Oh actually, he knows you very well.
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  • Jesus knows you better than you know yourself.
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  • He knows every detail about your life.
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  • And did you know that not only does he love you, but he has a
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  • Special unique plan for your life.
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  • God is not mad at you, god is mad about you.
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  • Here's what god says in one of my favorite verses,
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  • Jeremiah 29:11.
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  • God says, "'i know the thoughts that i think toward you,' says
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  • The lord.
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  • 'thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and
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  • A hope.'"
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  • Now, if god had simply said, "i know this singular thought i
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  • Once had about you for a fleeting moment," i'd be happy
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  • With that.
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  • But he says, "i know the thoughts," plural, more than
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  • One, "that i think towards you."
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  • And then we think, "yeah, but what kind of thoughts are they?"
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  • They're good thoughts.
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  • God says, "thoughts of peace and not of evil."
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  • He loves you.
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  • He has a plan for your life.
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  • And listen to this, god's plan for you is better than your plan
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  • For yourself.
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  • It really is. it really is.
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  • I heard about a little boy and his father who went into a
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  • Hardware store, and as they were checking out, there was a big
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  • Jar full of candy.
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  • And the hardware store owner said to the little boy, "son,
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  • Grab a handful of candy.
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  • It's free."
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  • The little boy didn't grab it.
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  • He just kind of looked up at his dad.
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  • Hardware store owner again said, "son, get a handful of
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  • That candy, it's free."
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  • Still the boy wouldn't take it. he just looked up at his dad.
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  • Finally his dad reached in, grabbed a handful of candy, and
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  • He got in the car with his little boy, and he said, "son,
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  • Why didn't you grab the free candy?"
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  • And the little boy said, "because dad, your hand is
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  • Bigger than mine."
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  • God's plan for you is bigger than your plan for yourself.
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  • It's really amazing.
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  • And he loves you and has a purpose for you.
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  • And i wanna look at a story in the bible about a woman who was
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  • Down and out, a woman who messed her life up, a woman who was
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  • Living immorally and got caught in the act of sin, got caught in
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  • The act of adultery.
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  • Now, in case you don't know what adultery is, that is sex outside
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  • Of marriage.
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  • The only place that god will bless sex is in a marriage
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  • Relationship, you see, so that's sexual sin.
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  • And i heard about a little boy that was in sunday school and
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  • The teacher talked about adultery.
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  • And as he was driving home, he said to his mom, "mom, the
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  • Teacher said we should not commit adultery.
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  • What does that even mean?"
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  • And the mother said, "that means you should not plow another
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  • Man's field, okay?"
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  • Just leave it at that.
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  • She didn't know what to say, right?
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  • But this woman was caught in the act, but look at what jesus did
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  • For her.
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  • I'm reading from john chapter 8, "as jesus was speaking, the
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  • Teachers of religious law and the pharisees brought a woman
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  • Who'd been caught in the act of adultery.
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  • They put her in front of the crowd.
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  • 'teacher,' they said to jesus, 'this woman was caught in the
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  • Act of adultery.
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  • The law of moses says she should be stoned to death.
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  • What do you say?'
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  • They were trying to trap him into saying something they could
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  • Use against him," listen to this, "jesus stooped down and
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  • Wrote in the dust with his finger.
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  • They were demanding an answer, he stood up again and said, 'all
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  • Right, let the one that is among you who has never sinned cast
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  • The first stone!'
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  • Then he stooped down again and he wrote in the dust.
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  • And when the accusers saw this, they left from the oldest to the
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  • Youngest, and then there was left just that woman and jesus.
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  • And jesus turns to her and says, 'woman, where are your accusers?
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  • Didn't even one of them condemn you?'
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  • She said, 'no one, lord.'
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  • And jesus said, 'neither do i.
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  • Go and sin no more."'
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  • Isn't that a great story?
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  • Love that story.
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  • So, this woman's caught having sex, a bunch of religious dudes
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  • Known as the scribes and pharisees, catch her in the act.
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  • Who knows?
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  • Maybe they even set her up, and it was really a trap for jesus,
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  • And she's thrown on the ground in front of him and jesus starts
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  • Writing in this sand.
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  • What do you think he wrote?
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  • Tic-tac-toe, your move.
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  • Maybe a little cartoon?
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  • I don't think so.
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  • We don't know what he wrote, but maybe he wrote, "you shall not
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  • Commit adultery," and then wrote someone's name next to it like
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  • Caleb, then looked over at caleb.
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  • And then maybe wrote another commandment
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  • And looked over at that other guy.
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  • "hey josh, you broke that one, didn't you?"
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  • And they left.
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  • "i gotta go. i have a roast in the oven.
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  • You know, let's go."
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  • They left from the oldest to the youngest, and all that's left is
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  • Just this woman and jesus.
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  • And he looks at her and he said, "where did all of your
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  • Accusers go?"
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  • Now, it's interesting because we read jesus looked at her and the
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  • Word look means he looked right through her.
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  • Have you ever had anyone look right through you?
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  • Let me restate the question.
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  • Do you have a mother?
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  • Maybe you're up past curfew.
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  • Mom says, "where have you been?"
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  • "nowhere mom."
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  • "look at me. look at me."
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  • And then you start confessing things you didn't even
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  • Do, right?
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  • But jesus looked through her, but it was not a look of anger,
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  • It was a look of love.
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  • And here's a really amazing thing, he says, "woman, where
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  • Are your accusers?"
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  • And the word he uses for woman is a term of respect.
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  • In fact, it's the same word he used to describe his own mother
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  • As he was hanging on the cross when looking
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  • Down, he saw her there.
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  • He said, "woman, behold your son."
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  • It's like saying to a woman, "lady," or "ma'am."
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  • It's a term of respect.
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  • Now listen, this girl had been called a lot of things in life,
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  • But she had never been addressed this way.
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  • But this is why jesus called her that.
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  • He didn't see her for what she was, he saw her for what she
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  • Could become, you see?
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  • [audience applauding]
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  • Greg: you know, you see a failure, god sees
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  • Your potential.
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  • You see the past, he sees the future.
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  • And then these words, "go and sin no more.
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  • Go and sin no more."
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  • Now, you think, "wait, when did this woman become a believer?"
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  • I think in the moment he dismissed her accusers, she
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  • Said, "i believe in jesus."
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  • You know how long it takes to become a christian?
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  • Not very long.
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  • Sometimes people say, "you know, i'm in the process of converting
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  • To christianity."
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  • It doesn't take long.
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  • It doesn't take a year.
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  • It doesn't take a month.
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  • It doesn't take a week.
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  • It doesn't take a day.
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  • It doesn't even take an hour.
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  • It can happen just like that.
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  • In a flash, in a moment, you can go from non-belief to belief.
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  • You really can.
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  • I think it's happened for some of you already.
  • 00:11:48.553 --> 00:11:51.289
  • You're thinking, "preacher, get done with your stinking sermon
  • 00:11:51.289 --> 00:11:53.925
  • So i can become a christian," right?
  • 00:11:53.925 --> 00:11:56.961
  • Because it's a move of god's spirit on your heart, and maybe
  • 00:11:56.961 --> 00:12:00.665
  • That's already happened for you.
  • 00:12:00.665 --> 00:12:03.134
  • And jesus says, "go and sin no more."
  • 00:12:03.134 --> 00:12:06.805
  • It's implicit in this statement where he's really saying, "don't
  • 00:12:06.805 --> 00:12:10.141
  • Keep living in this lifestyle, okay?
  • 00:12:10.141 --> 00:12:12.710
  • I'm forgiving you, but don't live this way anymore."
  • 00:12:12.710 --> 00:12:16.815
  • Listen, god loves you just as you are, but he doesn't want to
  • 00:12:16.815 --> 00:12:20.718
  • Leave you this way.
  • 00:12:20.718 --> 00:12:22.253
  • He wants to change you.
  • 00:12:22.253 --> 00:12:23.588
  • He really does.
  • 00:12:23.588 --> 00:12:24.956
  • The bible says, "if any man be in christ, he is an altogether
  • 00:12:24.956 --> 00:12:28.293
  • Different kind of person.
  • 00:12:28.293 --> 00:12:29.794
  • Old things have passed away.
  • 00:12:29.794 --> 00:12:31.429
  • Behold, everything becomes fresh and new," right?
  • 00:12:31.429 --> 00:12:35.600
  • I love it when it rains because everyone gets a free car wash.
  • 00:12:35.600 --> 00:12:41.673
  • And the birds come out and maybe you'll see a beautiful rainbow,
  • 00:12:41.673 --> 00:12:46.077
  • And that's what happens when you become a christian.
  • 00:12:46.077 --> 00:12:48.279
  • It's like you go from black and white to color.
  • 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:51.115
  • You go from death to life.
  • 00:12:51.115 --> 00:12:53.318
  • And in your future, you go from hell to heaven.
  • 00:12:53.318 --> 00:12:56.521
  • That's what it means to be a christian.
  • 00:12:56.521 --> 00:13:03.528
  • You say, "but greg, i'm really messed up.
  • 00:13:03.528 --> 00:13:05.930
  • I've done a lot of horrible things."
  • 00:13:05.930 --> 00:13:07.332
  • You can put your past behind you tonight and become a new person
  • 00:13:07.332 --> 00:13:12.170
  • If you'll put your faith in jesus christ because he died on
  • 00:13:12.170 --> 00:13:15.607
  • The cross for all of your sins, and he rose again from the dead.
  • 00:13:15.607 --> 00:13:20.879
  • And he's here right now, standing at the door of your
  • 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:23.181
  • Life, and he is knocking and he's saying if you'll hear his
  • 00:13:23.181 --> 00:13:26.351
  • Voice and open the door he'll come in.
  • 00:13:26.351 --> 00:13:29.220
  • So, i wanna talk to you about one other guy before i close.
  • 00:13:29.220 --> 00:13:32.190
  • So, we talked about this immoral woman.
  • 00:13:32.190 --> 00:13:34.826
  • Now let's talk about this religious man.
  • 00:13:34.826 --> 00:13:37.862
  • He's identified as the rich young ruler.
  • 00:13:37.862 --> 00:13:40.832
  • We don't know a lot about him except that he climbed his
  • 00:13:40.832 --> 00:13:43.768
  • Little corporate ladder very quickly, was very successful.
  • 00:13:43.768 --> 00:13:48.072
  • Came up to jesus and said, "good teacher, what must i do to
  • 00:13:48.072 --> 00:13:51.409
  • Inherit eternal life?"
  • 00:13:51.409 --> 00:13:52.810
  • Probably had a tricked out bmw chariot, custom wheels lowered,
  • 00:13:52.810 --> 00:13:59.884
  • Holding a latte, a lavender latte.
  • 00:13:59.884 --> 00:14:03.321
  • Well, what's the lavender?
  • 00:14:03.321 --> 00:14:04.689
  • Where did this lavender come from?
  • 00:14:04.689 --> 00:14:07.592
  • "good teacher, what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
  • 00:14:07.592 --> 00:14:12.897
  • Jesus said, "well, you know the commandments.
  • 00:14:12.897 --> 00:14:15.300
  • Don't steal, don't kill, don't commit adultery."
  • 00:14:15.300 --> 00:14:17.869
  • "oh yes," the guy says, "i've done these ever since i've been
  • 00:14:17.869 --> 00:14:20.638
  • A little kid."
  • 00:14:20.638 --> 00:14:22.140
  • Jesus said, "have you?
  • 00:14:22.140 --> 00:14:23.508
  • Well, i'll tell you what buddy, why don't you take all of your
  • 00:14:23.508 --> 00:14:25.977
  • Stuff, get rid of it, give it away, and come and follow me and
  • 00:14:25.977 --> 00:14:28.947
  • You'll have eternal life."
  • 00:14:28.947 --> 00:14:30.915
  • Isn't that interesting?
  • 00:14:30.915 --> 00:14:32.517
  • Jesus never said that to anybody else because jesus could see
  • 00:14:32.517 --> 00:14:36.587
  • That in this guy's life, his stuff was more important
  • 00:14:36.587 --> 00:14:39.691
  • To him than god.
  • 00:14:39.691 --> 00:14:41.025
  • Listen, everybody worships something.
  • 00:14:41.025 --> 00:14:44.429
  • Some people worship things, some people worship relationships,
  • 00:14:44.429 --> 00:14:49.267
  • Some people worship a career, and some people worship god.
  • 00:14:49.267 --> 00:14:53.371
  • And i wonder, who is your god tonight?
  • 00:14:53.371 --> 00:14:55.540
  • You have a god.
  • 00:14:55.540 --> 00:14:57.241
  • And there might be something that's keeping you away
  • 00:14:57.241 --> 00:14:59.777
  • From jesus.
  • 00:14:59.777 --> 00:15:01.145
  • And i'm telling you right now, whatever you give up to follow
  • 00:15:01.145 --> 00:15:04.148
  • Jesus will be more than made up to you.
  • 00:15:04.148 --> 00:15:07.852
  • To someone struggling with drugs, jesus might say, "take
  • 00:15:07.852 --> 00:15:12.657
  • Your drugs and flush them down the toilet and follow me."
  • 00:15:12.657 --> 00:15:16.694
  • "well, could i sell them?"
  • 00:15:16.694 --> 00:15:18.029
  • "no, that's called drug dealing.
  • 00:15:18.029 --> 00:15:19.397
  • No, get rid of them."
  • 00:15:19.397 --> 00:15:21.899
  • "i'm struggling with alcohol."
  • 00:15:21.899 --> 00:15:23.501
  • "yeah, pour it down the toilet too.
  • 00:15:23.501 --> 00:15:25.636
  • Put it all on the toilet.
  • 00:15:25.636 --> 00:15:27.005
  • Make sure you flush it."
  • 00:15:27.005 --> 00:15:29.574
  • Someone might be in a relationship, right, that's
  • 00:15:29.574 --> 00:15:31.776
  • Pulling them away from god,
  • 00:15:31.776 --> 00:15:33.678
  • A girl, a guy, they don't want you to follow jesus christ.
  • 00:15:33.678 --> 00:15:37.915
  • Maybe jesus would say, "you know what, you're gonna have to break
  • 00:15:37.915 --> 00:15:40.284
  • Off that relationship and follow me."
  • 00:15:40.284 --> 00:15:42.720
  • I wonder if there's someone listening to me right now that
  • 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:45.223
  • Would say, "i would really like to follow jesus, but i wonder
  • 00:15:45.223 --> 00:15:48.960
  • What the person sitting next to me would think if i did that."
  • 00:15:48.960 --> 00:15:52.330
  • The person sitting next to you is thinking, "i would really
  • 00:15:52.330 --> 00:15:54.932
  • Like to follow jesus, but what would happen to the person next
  • 00:15:54.932 --> 00:15:57.969
  • To me if i did?"
  • 00:15:57.969 --> 00:15:59.337
  • Who cares?
  • 00:15:59.337 --> 00:16:01.339
  • Really, who cares?
  • 00:16:01.339 --> 00:16:08.346
  • One day you'll stand before god all by yourself, and this man
  • 00:16:08.346 --> 00:16:12.683
  • Was wealthy.
  • 00:16:12.683 --> 00:16:14.185
  • We think wealth is going to solve all of our problems.
  • 00:16:14.185 --> 00:16:18.423
  • He found wealth early in life as well.
  • 00:16:18.423 --> 00:16:21.659
  • We all watch this tragic story of the titan submersible where
  • 00:16:21.659 --> 00:16:27.732
  • These people got in this tiny little miniature submarine to go
  • 00:16:27.732 --> 00:16:34.072
  • Two miles-plus down to view the wreckage of titanic.
  • 00:16:34.072 --> 00:16:39.410
  • And we all know that on their way down, they had what was
  • 00:16:39.410 --> 00:16:43.347
  • Described as a catastrophic implosion.
  • 00:16:43.347 --> 00:16:46.851
  • This thing was the size of a minivan.
  • 00:16:46.851 --> 00:16:49.954
  • Using a video controller--a video game controller to
  • 00:16:49.954 --> 00:16:54.492
  • Guide it.
  • 00:16:54.492 --> 00:16:55.827
  • You think, "why would a person get into that thing?"
  • 00:16:55.827 --> 00:16:58.496
  • Among the people that were in there are a couple
  • 00:16:58.496 --> 00:17:00.098
  • Of billionaires.
  • 00:17:00.098 --> 00:17:02.100
  • One was a british billionaire, age 58, who made his private
  • 00:17:02.100 --> 00:17:06.437
  • Fortune selling personal jets.
  • 00:17:06.437 --> 00:17:08.806
  • He holds three guinness world records for past extreme trips.
  • 00:17:08.806 --> 00:17:12.643
  • Why would you do this?
  • 00:17:12.643 --> 00:17:13.978
  • And a well-known psychologist whose clients include some of
  • 00:17:13.978 --> 00:17:17.482
  • The world's wealthiest people said, "like any other drug,
  • 00:17:17.482 --> 00:17:20.685
  • Sensation seeking creates a tolerance level in the brain.
  • 00:17:20.685 --> 00:17:25.156
  • We need to feel more.
  • 00:17:25.156 --> 00:17:27.091
  • You might start off making a million dollars, but then you
  • 00:17:27.091 --> 00:17:29.594
  • Need two million and then you take more risks," end quote.
  • 00:17:29.594 --> 00:17:33.798
  • You know, people say, "if i just get in this rocket ship and
  • 00:17:33.798 --> 00:17:36.067
  • Go into space and it cost me $500,000, i wanna do that.
  • 00:17:36.067 --> 00:17:39.971
  • Or i'll go to the depths of the sea.
  • 00:17:39.971 --> 00:17:41.806
  • Yeah, i wanna do that."
  • 00:17:41.806 --> 00:17:43.174
  • That's not where the answer is.
  • 00:17:43.174 --> 00:17:45.810
  • Listen, the psalmist says, "if i climb to the sky, you're there.
  • 00:17:45.810 --> 00:17:49.447
  • If i go to the depths of the ocean, you're there.
  • 00:17:49.447 --> 00:17:52.550
  • You'll be there waiting for me."
  • 00:17:52.550 --> 00:17:54.152
  • What you're looking for is jesus christ.
  • 00:17:54.152 --> 00:17:57.622
  • He's right here.
  • 00:17:57.622 --> 00:18:02.326
  • He's right here right now.
  • 00:18:02.326 --> 00:18:04.529
  • We have never had more distractions in our world than
  • 00:18:04.529 --> 00:18:07.331
  • We have today, and most of 'em have one of these in our pocket,
  • 00:18:07.331 --> 00:18:11.936
  • The cell phone.
  • 00:18:11.936 --> 00:18:13.471
  • I read a headline the other day, "screens are zapping the life
  • 00:18:13.471 --> 00:18:17.475
  • Out of teens.
  • 00:18:17.475 --> 00:18:19.343
  • It's the new great depression since the rise of social media."
  • 00:18:19.343 --> 00:18:23.181
  • One article says, "depression and feelings of hopelessness
  • 00:18:23.181 --> 00:18:26.817
  • Have skyrocketed among teens.
  • 00:18:26.817 --> 00:18:29.620
  • Nearly half of tweens and teenagers say they agree with
  • 00:18:29.620 --> 00:18:33.324
  • These phrases, 'i do not enjoy life,' and 'my life is
  • 00:18:33.324 --> 00:18:37.828
  • Not useful.'"
  • 00:18:37.828 --> 00:18:39.530
  • That's nearly twice as many
  • 00:18:39.530 --> 00:18:41.899
  • That said that same thing a decade ago.
  • 00:18:41.899 --> 00:18:44.268
  • Teen depression and suicide are on the rise.
  • 00:18:44.268 --> 00:18:47.505
  • Suicide is now the second leading cause of death among
  • 00:18:47.505 --> 00:18:50.675
  • Young americans.
  • 00:18:50.675 --> 00:18:52.009
  • Listen, the answer is not tech, the answer is not in money, the
  • 00:18:52.009 --> 00:18:55.479
  • Answer is not in fame or more followers on social media.
  • 00:18:55.479 --> 00:18:59.250
  • The answer is in a relationship with god through jesus christ.
  • 00:18:59.250 --> 00:19:03.120
  • That's what you need.
  • 00:19:03.120 --> 00:19:10.027
  • I'd add one other thing about this rich young ruler, he
  • 00:19:10.027 --> 00:19:13.397
  • Was religious.
  • 00:19:13.397 --> 00:19:15.733
  • And religion can keep you from jesus.
  • 00:19:15.733 --> 00:19:17.969
  • Let me say something that might surprise you.
  • 00:19:17.969 --> 00:19:20.171
  • I think it's possible that when it's all said and done, religion
  • 00:19:20.171 --> 00:19:23.541
  • May keep more people away from god than all of the other sins
  • 00:19:23.541 --> 00:19:27.945
  • And vices put together.
  • 00:19:27.945 --> 00:19:30.548
  • It's true.
  • 00:19:30.548 --> 00:19:32.650
  • Because, you know, when you're doing certain things, you
  • 00:19:32.650 --> 00:19:36.053
  • Know it.
  • 00:19:36.053 --> 00:19:37.421
  • Maybe it's a sin, maybe you don't, but, you know, you're
  • 00:19:37.421 --> 00:19:39.924
  • Living a life you're not proud of.
  • 00:19:39.924 --> 00:19:42.059
  • But when you're religious, you're so, "hey man, i don't
  • 00:19:42.059 --> 00:19:44.829
  • Need that, i'm a religious person."
  • 00:19:44.829 --> 00:19:46.831
  • You might be saying, "but greg, aren't you religious?"
  • 00:19:46.831 --> 00:19:49.533
  • I hope not.
  • 00:19:49.533 --> 00:19:51.235
  • I don't want to be religious because i think religious people
  • 00:19:51.235 --> 00:19:54.272
  • Are just flat-out weird.
  • 00:19:54.272 --> 00:19:57.341
  • I really do.
  • 00:19:57.341 --> 00:20:00.111
  • I don't think religion made them weird.
  • 00:20:00.111 --> 00:20:01.979
  • I think they were weird to start with, then they just got
  • 00:20:01.979 --> 00:20:04.548
  • Religious, that's all.
  • 00:20:04.548 --> 00:20:06.550
  • They're just weird people.
  • 00:20:06.550 --> 00:20:07.885
  • And the problem is, weird people never know they're weird, but
  • 00:20:07.885 --> 00:20:10.688
  • They are.
  • 00:20:10.688 --> 00:20:12.790
  • I am not interested in being a religious person.
  • 00:20:12.790 --> 00:20:16.694
  • I'm not talking to you tonight about religion, i'm talking to
  • 00:20:16.694 --> 00:20:19.730
  • You tonight about a relationship with jesus christ.
  • 00:20:19.730 --> 00:20:29.674
  • But, you know, a religious person, they'll say, "well, i go
  • 00:20:29.674 --> 00:20:33.644
  • To church, so i'm good."
  • 00:20:33.644 --> 00:20:37.181
  • Do you really go to church?
  • 00:20:37.181 --> 00:20:38.516
  • "yeah.
  • 00:20:38.516 --> 00:20:40.017
  • I'm a ceo christian."
  • 00:20:40.017 --> 00:20:42.053
  • What's a ceo christian?
  • 00:20:42.053 --> 00:20:44.155
  • "christmas and easter only."
  • 00:20:44.155 --> 00:20:48.025
  • But i'm not so sure about christmas this year.
  • 00:20:48.025 --> 00:20:50.461
  • Maybe just easter, we'll see.
  • 00:20:50.461 --> 00:20:53.164
  • There's people like that.
  • 00:20:53.164 --> 00:20:55.433
  • But religion can keep you from god because you're
  • 00:20:55.433 --> 00:20:59.570
  • Self-righteous.
  • 00:20:59.570 --> 00:21:00.905
  • You need to realize you're a sinner that needs a savior.
  • 00:21:00.905 --> 00:21:04.742
  • Years ago, i was with my son jonathan.
  • 00:21:04.742 --> 00:21:06.644
  • He came up a little bit earlier, and he was a little guy and i
  • 00:21:06.644 --> 00:21:10.915
  • Was taking him out surfing.
  • 00:21:10.915 --> 00:21:12.950
  • And so, i'm kind of keeping him above the water, helping him to
  • 00:21:12.950 --> 00:21:16.654
  • Catch waves.
  • 00:21:16.654 --> 00:21:17.988
  • And all of a sudden, i got caught in a riptide, okay?
  • 00:21:17.988 --> 00:21:21.492
  • But here's the problem.
  • 00:21:21.492 --> 00:21:22.860
  • I'm only a few feet from the shore, but somehow, i'm in
  • 00:21:22.860 --> 00:21:26.097
  • This riptide.
  • 00:21:26.097 --> 00:21:27.431
  • I'm getting pulled out and i'm holding him aloft trying to keep
  • 00:21:27.431 --> 00:21:30.935
  • Us head above water and i'm thinking, "this is ridiculous.
  • 00:21:30.935 --> 00:21:33.971
  • I'm so close to the shore.
  • 00:21:33.971 --> 00:21:35.906
  • I can't call up for help," and there's a
  • 00:21:35.906 --> 00:21:37.341
  • Lifeguard looking at me.
  • 00:21:37.341 --> 00:21:38.676
  • I thought--i'm holding him up.
  • 00:21:38.676 --> 00:21:40.177
  • I'm starting to kick in some water, and then she comes down
  • 00:21:40.177 --> 00:21:43.581
  • From the lifeguard stand and she's running toward me.
  • 00:21:43.581 --> 00:21:45.883
  • I'm like, "oh no, no, i don't wanna be saved.
  • 00:21:45.883 --> 00:21:48.452
  • I'm okay."
  • 00:21:48.452 --> 00:21:50.154
  • And she starts swimming toward me and i'm thinking, "oh no."
  • 00:21:50.154 --> 00:21:53.157
  • And then suddenly, i got my footing and i said, "i'm okay."
  • 00:21:53.157 --> 00:21:56.961
  • She waved. i said, "thank you."
  • 00:21:56.961 --> 00:21:59.163
  • But that's how we can be.
  • 00:21:59.163 --> 00:22:00.498
  • "i don't want to be saved. i don't need to be saved."
  • 00:22:00.498 --> 00:22:03.300
  • Hey, i was caught in a stinking riptide.
  • 00:22:03.300 --> 00:22:06.270
  • Bottom line, i needed some help.
  • 00:22:06.270 --> 00:22:08.773
  • You're caught in something worse than a riptide.
  • 00:22:08.773 --> 00:22:11.442
  • You're caught in sin, and there's only one person who can
  • 00:22:11.442 --> 00:22:14.378
  • Save you, and that's jesus christ.
  • 00:22:14.378 --> 00:22:18.416
  • He's the only one.
  • 00:22:18.416 --> 00:22:24.321
  • Clean living won't get you to heaven because
  • 00:22:24.321 --> 00:22:26.357
  • You're not clean enough.
  • 00:22:26.357 --> 00:22:27.691
  • Good works won't get you to heaven because you've not
  • 00:22:27.691 --> 00:22:30.227
  • Done enough.
  • 00:22:30.227 --> 00:22:31.996
  • Only jesus christ can give you that hope and that change and
  • 00:22:31.996 --> 00:22:37.468
  • That purpose you've been looking for.
  • 00:22:37.468 --> 00:22:39.904
  • So, let me close.
  • 00:22:39.904 --> 00:22:41.839
  • What do you need to do to come into this relationship with god?
  • 00:22:41.839 --> 00:22:45.643
  • Number one, you have to admit you're a sinner.
  • 00:22:45.643 --> 00:22:49.513
  • The bible says, "all have sinned and fallen
  • 00:22:49.513 --> 00:22:51.081
  • Short of the glory of god."
  • 00:22:51.081 --> 00:22:52.416
  • Every one of us have broken god's commandments.
  • 00:22:52.416 --> 00:22:55.186
  • Every one of us have fallen short of god's standards.
  • 00:22:55.186 --> 00:22:59.056
  • Not one of us have kept those commandments.
  • 00:22:59.056 --> 00:23:01.592
  • The word "sin" in the bible means to not only cross a line,
  • 00:23:01.592 --> 00:23:05.629
  • But it means to fall short of a goal.
  • 00:23:05.629 --> 00:23:08.599
  • We do both.
  • 00:23:08.599 --> 00:23:09.934
  • We're all sinners.
  • 00:23:09.934 --> 00:23:11.402
  • But the good news is the bible says, "while were we sinners,
  • 00:23:11.402 --> 00:23:14.738
  • Christ died for us."
  • 00:23:14.738 --> 00:23:16.073
  • So, i have to realize i'm a sinner.
  • 00:23:16.073 --> 00:23:17.842
  • Number two, i need to recognize christ died on the cross for me.
  • 00:23:17.842 --> 00:23:21.278
  • See, that was his plan from the very beginning.
  • 00:23:21.278 --> 00:23:24.482
  • Nails did not hold jesus to that cross 2000 years ago, love did.
  • 00:23:24.482 --> 00:23:30.054
  • Love for you, love for me.
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  • Jesus said, "for god so loved the world, he gave his only
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  • Begotten son, and whosoever believes in him should not
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  • Perish but have everlasting life."
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  • As i said earlier, god loves you.
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  • He died there for you.
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  • If you had been the only person on planet earth, jesus would
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  • Have gone to the cross and suffered and died for you.
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  • And no, he did suffer.
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  • He loves you so much, it hurts.
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  • They drove spikes through his hands and his feet.
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  • They tore his back open with a roman whip.
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  • They put a crown of thorns upon his head, and he bled and
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  • Suffered and died for the sin of all the world, but he bled and
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  • Suffered and died for your sin because he loves you.
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  • I love the way the apostle paul put it when he said, "he loved
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  • Me and he gave himself for me."
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  • Jesus loves you and gave himself for you.
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  • Then you must repent of your sin.
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  • The bible says god has commanded people everywhere to repent.
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  • The word repent means to change your direction.
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  • It's a military term.
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  • It means like an about face, right?
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  • So, instead of running away from god, you run toward god, you
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  • Turn from that sin, you're sorry for that sin, and you change.
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  • And then you must receive christ into your life.
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  • Jesus must come and be your savior and your lord and only
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  • You can ask him to come in.
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  • I can't do that for you.
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  • Your parents can't do that for you.
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  • Your friends that may have brought you here
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  • Tonight can't do that for you.
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  • You have to say, "jesus, i need you, come into my life, be my
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  • Savior, be my lord," and he'll do that for you.
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  • And lastly, you must do it now.
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  • You must do it now because the bible says today
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  • Is the day of salvation.
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  • I remember so clearly the day i gave my life to the lord over 50
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  • Years ago.
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  • And as i prayed the prayer, asking jesus to come into my
  • 00:25:35.713 --> 00:25:40.484
  • Life, i thought to myself, "this isn't going to work for me
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  • Because i'm not the religious type."
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  • I was very cynical, but i'm so glad to say god isn't looking
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  • For the religious type, he's looking for the sinner type, and
  • 00:25:51.395 --> 00:25:55.299
  • That means you and i qualify, right?
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  • And i prayed that prayer and something happened to me.
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  • Jesus came into my life, and something's
  • 00:26:05.042 --> 00:26:07.077
  • Gonna happen for you.
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  • You say, "well, greg, i'll clean my life up and come to christ."
  • 00:26:08.412 --> 00:26:11.515
  • No, don't clean your life up.
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  • Come to christ and he'll clean your life up.
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  • You just come as you are tonight.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie, i've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is that 2,000 years ago, god sent
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  • His son, jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin,
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  • And then to rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
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  • To come into your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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  • From this moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven has heard you.
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  • And let me be the first to say to you
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  • Congratulations, and welcome to the family of god.
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