Greg Laurie - Jesus and You

February 4, 2026 | 27:29

Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.

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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: the title of my message is "jesus and you."
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  • You know, we have a big crowd here tonight, but when god
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  • Looks at a crowd 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 enamored
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  • With superheroes.
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  • Did you know over $3 billion of our hard-earned money has been
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  • Spent on superhero movies from all the studios out there?
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  • And here's the thing.
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  • I hate to break this to you.
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  • These superheroes, 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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  • Superhuman 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 superhuman power.
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  • You just have to get him mad and super green.
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  • But they're fictional.
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  • They're not real.
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  • But there was a man who walked on our planet who had
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  • Unlimited power.
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  • He didn't breathe under water, he walked on the water.
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  • And his name was jesus christ, and he is the king of kings and
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  • He's the lord of lords and he's in this place right now.
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  • He's here with us.
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  • You know, god can seem so unapproachable, he's so
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  • Powerful, he's so mysterious, but jesus was god walking
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  • Among us.
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  • I heard a story about a little boy who was scared one night and
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  • He called up from his bedroom to his father, "daddy, daddy,
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  • 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
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  • We 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'll have
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  • Millions of followers.
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  • The guest of honor at a celebration, that's called the
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  • Man or woman of the year.
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  • Time magazine every year picks a person of the year, and every
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  • 10 years they pick the person of the decade.
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  • But 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 fascinated
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  • 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
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  • A 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, and i want to start with this.
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  • I know you've heard it before, but i got to 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
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  • A 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 towards you,' says
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  • The lord, 'thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you
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  • A future and 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, 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.
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  • God's plan for you is better than your plan for yourself.
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  • 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 jar
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  • Full of candy, and the hardware store owner said to the little
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  • Boy, "son, grab a handful of candy.
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  • It's free."
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  • The little boy didn't grab it, he just kinda looked up at
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  • His dad.
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  • Hardware store owner again, said,
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  • "son get a handful of that candy.
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  • 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.
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  • And he said, "son, 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
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  • For yourself.
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  • It's really amazing and he loves you and has a purpose for you.
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  • And i want to 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.
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  • 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, and as he was driving
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  • Home he said to his mom, "mom, the teacher said we should not
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  • 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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  • That's it.
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  • That's it."
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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
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  • The 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, saying something they could use
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  • Against him.
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  • Listen to this.
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  • "jesus stooped down and wrote in the dust with his finger.
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  • They were demanding an answer.
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  • He stood up again and said, 'all right, let the one that is among
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  • You who has never sinned cast 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. 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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  • [audience applauding]
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  • So this woman is caught having sex.
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  • A bunch of religious dudes known as the scribes and pharisees
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  • 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
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  • Starts writing in the sand.
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  • What do you think he wrote?
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  • Tic-tac-toe.
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  • "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."
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  • And then wrote someone's name next to it like caleb, then
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  • Looked over at caleb.
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  • And then maybe he wrote another commandment and looked over at
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  • 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 got to go.
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  • 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
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  • The word looked 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 out 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.
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  • He says, "woman, where 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 down he saw her
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  • There 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.
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  • This girl had been called a lot of things in life, but she had
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  • 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.
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  • 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 will say, "you know, i'm in the process of
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  • Converting to christianity."
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  • It doesn't take long.
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  • 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.
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  • You're thinking, "preacher, get done with your stinking sermon
  • 00:11:39.465 --> 00:11:42.134
  • So i can become a christian," right?
  • 00:11:42.134 --> 00:11:45.137
  • Because it's a move of god's spirit on your heart, and maybe
  • 00:11:45.137 --> 00:11:48.874
  • That's already happened for you.
  • 00:11:48.874 --> 00:11:51.343
  • And jesus says, "go and sin no more."
  • 00:11:51.343 --> 00:11:54.980
  • It's implicit in this statement where he's really saying, "don't
  • 00:11:54.980 --> 00:11:58.284
  • Keep living in this lifestyle, okay?
  • 00:11:58.284 --> 00:12:00.886
  • I'm forgiving you, but don't live this way anymore."
  • 00:12:00.886 --> 00:12:04.990
  • Listen, god loves you just as you are, but he doesn't want to
  • 00:12:04.990 --> 00:12:08.894
  • Leave you this way.
  • 00:12:08.894 --> 00:12:10.429
  • He wants to change you.
  • 00:12:10.429 --> 00:12:11.764
  • He really does.
  • 00:12:11.764 --> 00:12:13.132
  • The bible says if any man be in christ, he is an altogether
  • 00:12:13.132 --> 00:12:16.469
  • Different kind of person.
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  • Old things have passed away.
  • 00:12:18.003 --> 00:12:19.605
  • Behold, everything becomes fresh and new, right?
  • 00:12:19.605 --> 00:12:23.809
  • I love it when it rains because everyone gets a free car wash
  • 00:12:23.809 --> 00:12:29.849
  • And the birds come out and maybe you'll see a beautiful rainbow,
  • 00:12:29.849 --> 00:12:33.753
  • And that's what happens when you become a christian.
  • 00:12:33.753 --> 00:12:36.489
  • It's like you go from black and white to color, you go from
  • 00:12:36.489 --> 00:12:40.159
  • Death to life, and in your future you go from hell
  • 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.896
  • To heaven.
  • 00:12:43.896 --> 00:12:45.264
  • That's what it means to be a christian.
  • 00:12:45.264 --> 00:12:51.704
  • You say, "but, greg, i'm really messed up.
  • 00:12:51.704 --> 00:12:54.106
  • I've done a lot of horrible things."
  • 00:12:54.106 --> 00:12:55.508
  • You can put your past behind you tonight and become a new person
  • 00:12:55.508 --> 00:13:00.312
  • If you'll put your faith in jesus christ because he died on
  • 00:13:00.312 --> 00:13:03.783
  • The cross for all of your sins and he rose again from the dead
  • 00:13:03.783 --> 00:13:09.088
  • And he's here right now standing at the door of your life and he
  • 00:13:09.088 --> 00:13:12.024
  • Is knocking and he is saying, you know, if you'll hear his
  • 00:13:12.024 --> 00:13:14.527
  • Voice and open the door he'll come in.
  • 00:13:14.527 --> 00:13:17.363
  • So i want to talk to you about one other guy before i close.
  • 00:13:17.363 --> 00:13:20.399
  • So we talked about this immoral woman.
  • 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:22.968
  • Now let's talk about this religious man.
  • 00:13:22.968 --> 00:13:26.038
  • He's identified as the rich, young ruler.
  • 00:13:26.038 --> 00:13:29.008
  • We don't know a lot about him except that he climbed his
  • 00:13:29.008 --> 00:13:31.944
  • Little corporate ladder very quickly.
  • 00:13:31.944 --> 00:13:34.079
  • He was very successful, came up to jesus and said, "good
  • 00:13:34.079 --> 00:13:37.950
  • Teacher, what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
  • 00:13:37.950 --> 00:13:41.020
  • Probably had a tricked-out bmw chariot, custom wheels lowered,
  • 00:13:41.020 --> 00:13:48.093
  • Holding a latte--a lavender latte.
  • 00:13:48.093 --> 00:13:51.797
  • What is a lavender?
  • 00:13:51.797 --> 00:13:53.132
  • Where did this lavender come from?
  • 00:13:53.132 --> 00:13:55.801
  • "good teacher, what must i do to inherit eternal life?"
  • 00:13:55.801 --> 00:14:01.073
  • Jesus said, "well, you know the commandments don't steal, don't
  • 00:14:01.073 --> 00:14:04.410
  • Kill, don't commit adultery?"
  • 00:14:04.410 --> 00:14:06.045
  • "oh, yes."
  • 00:14:06.045 --> 00:14:07.379
  • The guy says, "i've done these ever since i've been
  • 00:14:07.379 --> 00:14:08.948
  • A little kid."
  • 00:14:08.948 --> 00:14:10.316
  • Jesus said, "have you?
  • 00:14:10.316 --> 00:14:11.684
  • Well, i'll tell you what, buddy.
  • 00:14:11.684 --> 00:14:13.018
  • Why don't you take all of your stuff, get rid of it, give it
  • 00:14:13.018 --> 00:14:15.554
  • Away, and come and follow me and you'll have eternal life?"
  • 00:14:15.554 --> 00:14:19.091
  • Isn't that interesting?
  • 00:14:19.091 --> 00:14:20.693
  • Jesus never said that to anybody else because jesus could see
  • 00:14:20.693 --> 00:14:24.763
  • That in this guy's life his stuff was more important to him
  • 00:14:24.763 --> 00:14:28.467
  • Than god.
  • 00:14:28.467 --> 00:14:29.835
  • Listen, everybody worships something.
  • 00:14:29.835 --> 00:14:32.638
  • Some people worship things, some people worship relationships,
  • 00:14:32.638 --> 00:14:37.443
  • Some people worship a career, and some people worship god.
  • 00:14:37.443 --> 00:14:41.547
  • And i wonder, who is your god tonight?
  • 00:14:41.547 --> 00:14:43.716
  • You have a god.
  • 00:14:43.716 --> 00:14:45.384
  • And there might be something that's keeping you away from
  • 00:14:45.384 --> 00:14:48.254
  • Jesus, and i'm telling you right now whatever you give up to
  • 00:14:48.254 --> 00:14:51.891
  • Follow jesus will be more than made up to you.
  • 00:14:51.891 --> 00:14:56.028
  • To someone struggling with drugs, jesus might say, "take
  • 00:14:56.028 --> 00:15:00.833
  • Your drugs and flush them down the toilet and follow me."
  • 00:15:00.833 --> 00:15:04.870
  • "well, could i sell them?"
  • 00:15:04.870 --> 00:15:06.205
  • No, that's called drug dealing.
  • 00:15:06.205 --> 00:15:07.573
  • No, get rid of them.
  • 00:15:07.573 --> 00:15:10.075
  • "i'm struggling with alcohol."
  • 00:15:10.075 --> 00:15:11.644
  • Yeah, pour it down the toilet too.
  • 00:15:11.644 --> 00:15:13.812
  • Put it all on the toilet.
  • 00:15:13.812 --> 00:15:15.180
  • Make sure you flush it.
  • 00:15:15.180 --> 00:15:17.750
  • Someone might be in a relationship, right, that's
  • 00:15:17.750 --> 00:15:19.985
  • Pulling them away from god, a girl or guy.
  • 00:15:19.985 --> 00:15:23.722
  • They don't want you to follow jesus christ.
  • 00:15:23.722 --> 00:15:26.091
  • Maybe jesus would say, "you know what?
  • 00:15:26.091 --> 00:15:27.559
  • You're going to have to break off that relationship and
  • 00:15:27.559 --> 00:15:30.162
  • Follow me."
  • 00:15:30.162 --> 00:15:31.530
  • I wonder if there's someone listening to me right now that
  • 00:15:31.530 --> 00:15:33.399
  • Would say, "i would really like to follow jesus, but i wonder
  • 00:15:33.399 --> 00:15:37.169
  • What the person sitting next to me would think if i did that."
  • 00:15:37.169 --> 00:15:40.539
  • The person sitting next to you is thinking, "i would really
  • 00:15:40.539 --> 00:15:43.142
  • Like to follow jesus, but what would happen to the person next
  • 00:15:43.142 --> 00:15:46.178
  • To me if i did?"
  • 00:15:46.178 --> 00:15:47.513
  • Who cares?
  • 00:15:47.513 --> 00:15:49.515
  • Really, who cares?
  • 00:15:49.515 --> 00:15:56.522
  • One day you'll stand before god all by yourself.
  • 00:15:56.522 --> 00:16:00.225
  • And this man was wealthy.
  • 00:16:00.225 --> 00:16:02.361
  • We think wealth, it's going to solve all of our problems.
  • 00:16:02.361 --> 00:16:06.598
  • He found wealth early in life as well.
  • 00:16:06.598 --> 00:16:09.835
  • We all watched this tragic story of the titan submersible where
  • 00:16:09.835 --> 00:16:15.941
  • These people got in this tiny, little, miniature submarine to
  • 00:16:15.941 --> 00:16:22.014
  • Go 2 miles-plus down to view the wreckage of titanic, and we all
  • 00:16:22.014 --> 00:16:28.220
  • Know that on their way down they had what was described as
  • 00:16:28.220 --> 00:16:32.358
  • A catastrophic implosion.
  • 00:16:32.358 --> 00:16:34.994
  • This thing was the size of a minivan using a video
  • 00:16:34.994 --> 00:16:39.631
  • Controller--a video game controller to guide it.
  • 00:16:39.631 --> 00:16:43.202
  • And you think, "why would a person get into that thing?"
  • 00:16:43.202 --> 00:16:46.672
  • Among the people that were in there, a couple of billionaires.
  • 00:16:46.672 --> 00:16:50.275
  • One was a british billionaire age 58 who made his private
  • 00:16:50.275 --> 00:16:54.613
  • Fortune selling personal jets.
  • 00:16:54.613 --> 00:16:56.982
  • He holds three guinness world records for past extreme trips.
  • 00:16:56.982 --> 00:17:00.819
  • Why would he do this?
  • 00:17:00.819 --> 00:17:02.154
  • And a well-known psychologist whose clients includes some of
  • 00:17:02.154 --> 00:17:05.624
  • The world's wealthiest people said, "like any other drug,
  • 00:17:05.624 --> 00:17:08.861
  • Sensation-seeking creates a tolerance level in the brain.
  • 00:17:08.861 --> 00:17:13.298
  • We need to feel more.
  • 00:17:13.298 --> 00:17:15.267
  • You might start off making $1 million, but then you need $2
  • 00:17:15.267 --> 00:17:18.604
  • Million and then you take more risks," end quote.
  • 00:17:18.604 --> 00:17:21.974
  • You know, people say, "if i just get in this rocket ship and go
  • 00:17:21.974 --> 00:17:24.376
  • Into space and may cost me $500,000, i want to do that."
  • 00:17:24.376 --> 00:17:28.147
  • Or, "i'll go to the depths of the sea.
  • 00:17:28.147 --> 00:17:29.982
  • Yeah, i want to do that."
  • 00:17:29.982 --> 00:17:31.350
  • That's not where the answer is.
  • 00:17:31.350 --> 00:17:33.952
  • Listen, the psalmist says, "if i climb to the sky, you're there.
  • 00:17:33.952 --> 00:17:37.623
  • If i go to the depths of the ocean, you're there.
  • 00:17:37.623 --> 00:17:40.726
  • You'll be there waiting for me."
  • 00:17:40.726 --> 00:17:42.327
  • What you're looking for is jesus christ.
  • 00:17:42.327 --> 00:17:45.798
  • He's right here.
  • 00:17:45.798 --> 00:17:50.502
  • He's right here right now.
  • 00:17:50.502 --> 00:17:52.738
  • We have never had more distractions in our world than
  • 00:17:52.738 --> 00:17:55.541
  • We have today, and most of them have one of these in our pocket,
  • 00:17:55.541 --> 00:18:00.112
  • The cell phone.
  • 00:18:00.112 --> 00:18:01.647
  • I read a headline the other day: "screens are zapping the life
  • 00:18:01.647 --> 00:18:05.651
  • Out of teens.
  • 00:18:05.651 --> 00:18:07.519
  • It's the new great depression.
  • 00:18:07.519 --> 00:18:09.321
  • Since the rise of social media," one article says, "depression
  • 00:18:09.321 --> 00:18:13.258
  • And feelings of hopelessness have skyrocketed among teens.
  • 00:18:13.258 --> 00:18:17.796
  • Nearly half of tweens and teenagers say they agree with
  • 00:18:17.796 --> 00:18:21.500
  • These phrases: 'i do not enjoy life, and my life is
  • 00:18:21.500 --> 00:18:26.004
  • Not useful.'
  • 00:18:26.004 --> 00:18:27.673
  • That's nearly twice as many."
  • 00:18:27.673 --> 00:18:30.075
  • It said that same thing a decade ago.
  • 00:18:30.075 --> 00:18:32.444
  • "teen depression and suicide are on the rise.
  • 00:18:32.444 --> 00:18:35.681
  • Suicide is now the second-leading cause of death
  • 00:18:35.681 --> 00:18:38.617
  • Among young americans."
  • 00:18:38.617 --> 00:18:39.952
  • Listen, the answer is not in tech, the answer is not in
  • 00:18:39.952 --> 00:18:42.921
  • Money, the answer is not in fame or more followers on
  • 00:18:42.921 --> 00:18:46.358
  • Social media.
  • 00:18:46.358 --> 00:18:47.726
  • The answer is in a relationship with god through jesus christ.
  • 00:18:47.726 --> 00:18:51.330
  • That's what you need. [audience applauding]
  • 00:18:51.330 --> 00:18:58.203
  • I'd add one other thing about this rich, young ruler.
  • 00:18:58.203 --> 00:19:01.440
  • He was religious, and religion can keep you from jesus.
  • 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:06.145
  • Let me say something that might surprise you.
  • 00:19:06.145 --> 00:19:08.313
  • I think it's possible that when it's all said and done religion
  • 00:19:08.313 --> 00:19:11.717
  • May keep more people away from god than all of the other sins
  • 00:19:11.717 --> 00:19:16.155
  • And vices put together.
  • 00:19:16.155 --> 00:19:18.724
  • It's true because--you know, when you're doing certain things
  • 00:19:18.724 --> 00:19:24.062
  • You know maybe it's a sin, maybe you don't, but you--you're
  • 00:19:24.062 --> 00:19:28.100
  • Living a life you're not proud of.
  • 00:19:28.100 --> 00:19:30.235
  • But when you're religious, you're so, "hey, man, i don't
  • 00:19:30.235 --> 00:19:33.005
  • Need that.
  • 00:19:33.005 --> 00:19:34.339
  • I'm a religious person."
  • 00:19:34.339 --> 00:19:35.707
  • You might be saying, "but, greg, aren't you religious?"
  • 00:19:35.707 --> 00:19:37.709
  • I hope not.
  • 00:19:37.709 --> 00:19:39.411
  • I don't want to be religious because i think religious people
  • 00:19:39.411 --> 00:19:42.447
  • Are just flat-out weird.
  • 00:19:42.447 --> 00:19:45.484
  • I really do.
  • 00:19:45.484 --> 00:19:48.287
  • I don't think religion made them weird.
  • 00:19:48.287 --> 00:19:50.155
  • I think they were weird to start with, then they just
  • 00:19:50.155 --> 00:19:52.558
  • Got religious.
  • 00:19:52.558 --> 00:19:53.926
  • That's all.
  • 00:19:53.926 --> 00:19:55.260
  • They're just weird people.
  • 00:19:55.260 --> 00:19:56.628
  • And the problem is weird people never know they're weird, but
  • 00:19:56.628 --> 00:19:58.864
  • They are.
  • 00:19:58.864 --> 00:20:01.099
  • I am not interested in being a religious person.
  • 00:20:01.099 --> 00:20:04.870
  • I'm not talking to you tonight about religion, i'm talking to
  • 00:20:04.870 --> 00:20:07.906
  • You tonight about a relationship with jesus christ.
  • 00:20:07.906 --> 00:20:17.849
  • But, you know, a religious person, they'll say, "well, i go
  • 00:20:17.849 --> 00:20:21.820
  • To church so i'm good."
  • 00:20:21.820 --> 00:20:25.357
  • "well, do you really go to church?"
  • 00:20:25.357 --> 00:20:28.126
  • "i'm a ceo christian."
  • 00:20:28.126 --> 00:20:30.195
  • "what's a ceo christian?"
  • 00:20:30.195 --> 00:20:32.331
  • "christmas and easter only.
  • 00:20:32.331 --> 00:20:36.134
  • But i'm not so sure about christmas this year, maybe
  • 00:20:36.134 --> 00:20:39.037
  • Just easter.
  • 00:20:39.037 --> 00:20:40.372
  • We'll see."
  • 00:20:40.372 --> 00:20:41.740
  • There's people like that.
  • 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:43.642
  • But religion can keep you from god because
  • 00:20:43.642 --> 00:20:47.412
  • You're self-righteous.
  • 00:20:47.412 --> 00:20:48.747
  • You need to realize you're a sinner that needs a savior.
  • 00:20:48.747 --> 00:20:52.918
  • Years ago i was with my son jonathan.
  • 00:20:52.918 --> 00:20:54.853
  • He came up a little bit earlier, and he was a little guy and i
  • 00:20:54.853 --> 00:20:59.091
  • Was taking him out surfing.
  • 00:20:59.091 --> 00:21:01.159
  • And so i'm kind of keeping him above the water, helping him to
  • 00:21:01.159 --> 00:21:04.796
  • Catch waves and all of a sudden i got caught in a riptide, okay?
  • 00:21:04.796 --> 00:21:09.701
  • But here's the problem.
  • 00:21:09.701 --> 00:21:11.036
  • I'm only a few feet from the shore, but somehow i'm in
  • 00:21:11.036 --> 00:21:14.273
  • This riptide.
  • 00:21:14.273 --> 00:21:15.641
  • I'm getting pulled out and i'm holding him aloft, trying to
  • 00:21:15.641 --> 00:21:18.877
  • Keep his head above water and i'm thinking, "this
  • 00:21:18.877 --> 00:21:21.213
  • Is ridiculous.
  • 00:21:21.213 --> 00:21:22.581
  • I'm so close to the shore."
  • 00:21:22.581 --> 00:21:24.116
  • I can't call up for help, and there's a lifeguard looking
  • 00:21:24.116 --> 00:21:26.485
  • At me.
  • 00:21:26.485 --> 00:21:27.819
  • I thought--i'm holding him up, i'm starting to take in some
  • 00:21:27.819 --> 00:21:29.554
  • Water, and then she comes down from the lifeguard stand and
  • 00:21:29.554 --> 00:21:33.191
  • She's running toward me.
  • 00:21:33.191 --> 00:21:34.526
  • I'm like, "oh, no, no.
  • 00:21:34.526 --> 00:21:35.894
  • I don't want to be saved.
  • 00:21:35.894 --> 00:21:37.229
  • I'm okay."
  • 00:21:37.229 --> 00:21:38.597
  • And she starts swimming toward me and i'm thinking, "oh, no."
  • 00:21:38.597 --> 00:21:41.333
  • And then suddenly i got my foot in.
  • 00:21:41.333 --> 00:21:43.435
  • I said, "i'm okay."
  • 00:21:43.435 --> 00:21:45.103
  • She waved.
  • 00:21:45.103 --> 00:21:46.471
  • I said, "thank you."
  • 00:21:46.471 --> 00:21:47.806
  • But that's how we can be.
  • 00:21:47.806 --> 00:21:49.174
  • "i don't want to be saved.
  • 00:21:49.174 --> 00:21:50.509
  • I don't need to be saved."
  • 00:21:50.509 --> 00:21:51.877
  • Hey, i was caught in a stinking riptide.
  • 00:21:51.877 --> 00:21:54.579
  • Bottom line, i needed some help.
  • 00:21:54.579 --> 00:21:56.815
  • You're caught in something worse than a riptide.
  • 00:21:56.815 --> 00:21:59.618
  • You're caught in sin, and there's only one person who can
  • 00:21:59.618 --> 00:22:02.888
  • Save you and that's jesus christ.
  • 00:22:02.888 --> 00:22:06.558
  • He's the only one.
  • 00:22:06.558 --> 00:22:12.497
  • Clean living won't get you to heaven because you're not
  • 00:22:12.497 --> 00:22:14.933
  • Clean enough.
  • 00:22:14.933 --> 00:22:16.301
  • Good works won't get you to heaven because you've not
  • 00:22:16.301 --> 00:22:18.403
  • Done enough.
  • 00:22:18.403 --> 00:22:20.172
  • Only jesus christ can give you that hope and that change and
  • 00:22:20.172 --> 00:22:25.610
  • That purpose you've been looking for.
  • 00:22:25.610 --> 00:22:28.046
  • So let me close.
  • 00:22:28.046 --> 00:22:30.015
  • What do you need to do to come into this relationship with god?
  • 00:22:30.015 --> 00:22:33.819
  • Number one, you have to admit you're a sinner.
  • 00:22:33.819 --> 00:22:37.689
  • The bible says, "all have sinned and fallen short of the
  • 00:22:37.689 --> 00:22:40.158
  • Glory of god."
  • 00:22:40.158 --> 00:22:41.526
  • Every one of us have broken god's commandments.
  • 00:22:41.526 --> 00:22:43.362
  • Every one of us have fallen short of god's standards.
  • 00:22:43.362 --> 00:22:47.199
  • Not one of us have kept those commandments.
  • 00:22:47.199 --> 00:22:49.768
  • The word sin in the bible means to not only cross a line, but it
  • 00:22:49.768 --> 00:22:54.005
  • Means to fall short of a goal.
  • 00:22:54.005 --> 00:22:56.742
  • We do both.
  • 00:22:56.742 --> 00:22:58.076
  • We're all sinners.
  • 00:22:58.076 --> 00:22:59.611
  • But the good news is the bible says, "while were we yet
  • 00:22:59.611 --> 00:23:02.881
  • Sinners christ died for us."
  • 00:23:02.881 --> 00:23:04.216
  • So i have to realize i'm a sinner.
  • 00:23:04.216 --> 00:23:06.051
  • Number two, i need to recognize christ died on the cross for me.
  • 00:23:06.051 --> 00:23:09.454
  • See, that was his plan from the very beginning.
  • 00:23:09.454 --> 00:23:12.624
  • Nails did not hold jesus to that cross 2,000 years ago; love did,
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  • Love for you, love for me.
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  • Jesus said for god so loved the world he gave his only begotten
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  • Son and whosoever believes in him should not perish but have
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  • 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 know 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, they tore
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  • His back open with a roman whip, they put a crown of thorns upon
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  • His head, and he bled and suffered and died for the sin of
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  • All the world, but he bled and suffered and died for your sin
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  • 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.
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  • You turn from that sin, you're sorry for that sin, and you
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  • Change, 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 tonight
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  • Can't do that for you.
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  • You have to say, "jesus, i need you.
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  • Come into my life.
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  • Be my savior.
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  • Be my lord," and he'll do that for you.
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  • And the last thing, you must do it now.
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  • You must do it now because the bible says today is
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  • The day of salvation.
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  • You say, "well, greg, i'll clean my life up and come to christ."
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  • No, don't clean your life up, come to christ,
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  • 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.
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  • Years ago i was in the ocean with my son and we got caught in
  • 00:25:32.030 --> 00:25:35.233
  • A riptide.
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  • Problem is we were only a few feet from the shore.
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  • The lifeguard comes to rescue me, i say, "i think i'm okay."
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  • And i finally got my feet on firm ground.
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  • But the problem was i was too proud to say i needed help.
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  • That's like us drowning in sin, drowning in addiction, needing
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  • The help of god.
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  • Here's what the bible says.
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  • "whoever will call upon the name of the lord will be saved."
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  • Whatever you're facing right now, jesus is ready to come and
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  • Help you, to save you.
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  • You can just pray, "lord jesus, save me.
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  • Forgive me of my sin.
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  • I need a relationship with you.
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  • I need hope in my life."
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  • Pray that prayer.
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  • He'll hear it and he'll answer it.
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  • I want to send you a bible at no charge to help you get started
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  • In a relationship with jesus christ.
  • 00:26:22.414 --> 00:26:26.785
  • Greg: you know, we say to a new believer, start reading the
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  • Bible, but they don't know where to start, do they?
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  • So we have a special edition of the bible called the "new
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  • Believer's bible."
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  • I wrote thousands of notes for it and i sort of see it as what
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  • I would do if i was sitting down with a person over a cup of
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  • Coffee and explaining the basics of the christian life to them.
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  • There's over 10 million copies of this bible in print, but
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