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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Lost Boy

March 19, 2025 | S25:E67

Greg Laurie - Lost Boy
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Lost Boy | March 19, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: you might say, "i've messed up in life and i'm
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  • Gonna clean my life up and try to become more moral and more
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  • Religious, and then i'll come to god."
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  • Listen, don't try to clean your life up and come to god.
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  • Come to god, and he will clean your life up.
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  • You just come as you are.
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  • ♪ this is the day, ♪
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  • ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: who wants to hear a bible story?
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  • Raise your hand.
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  • Oh, good, good. i have one for you right now.
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  • In fact, the title of my message is, "lost boy," and it's gonna
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  • Be based on a very familiar story
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  • In the bible, the story of the prodigal son.
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  • Our life, it's like a movie, and of course
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  • We're the star of our own movie.
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  • This movie that we're in, this life that we live has a
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  • Beginning, a middle, and an end, a lot of twists and turns, storm
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  • Clouds and darkness, a lot of things that we don't always
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  • Understand, and we have questions about this movie we're
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  • All in, this life we're all living.
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  • Is it a drama?
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  • Is it a love story?
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  • Maybe it's a comedy.
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  • Or is it a hopeless tragedy?
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  • A famous cardiologist wrote in his autobiography, quote, "hope
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  • Is the medicine i use more than any other.
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  • Hope can cure nearly anything," end quote.
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  • And i wonder if you're without hope right now because you
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  • Cannot survive without hope in your life.
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  • It's been said man can live 40 days without food,
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  • 3 days without water, 8 minutes without air,
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  • But not 1 second without hope.
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  • And i have hope for america tonight, i have
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  • Hope for california tonight, i have hope for you tonight,
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  • And it's a relationship with god.
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  • I'll tell you where my hope isn't.
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  • My hope is not in politicians.
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  • My hope is not in technology.
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  • My hope is not in mankind at all.
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  • In fact, we're living in frightening times right now.
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  • Our world leaders are literally talking about
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  • The possibility of a nuclear war.
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  • Have you noticed?
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  • These are scary times that we're living, and
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  • We wonder what is going on in this world.
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  • We need hope.
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  • Generation z has been described as the hopeless generation.
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  • I mean, here's a generation that's the
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  • Most affluent that is ever lived.
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  • They have all the coolest tech.
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  • They have iphones and they have ipads and all this shiny stuff.
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  • And i'm talking about their pets, not even them.
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  • That is how good they have it, right?
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  • But the thing you're looking for is not
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  • A shiny object you hold in your hand.
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  • It's not any thing in particular.
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  • The thing that you need that will bring you the hope you were
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  • Looking for happens in your heart.
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  • I'm going to start by telling you a story about a lost boy, a
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  • Little boy who had a hard life before him, a little boy that
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  • Had the cards stacked against him, and that little boy was me.
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  • Now, you may think because i'm a preacher i was raised in a
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  • Christian home and i went to sunday school as a kid.
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  • The very opposite was the case.
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  • In fact, my childhood was not like the
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  • Ones that you saw on tv at the time.
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  • You know, i thought to myself that maybe things
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  • Will get better, and i escaped in my little
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  • Imaginary world of drawing cartoons.
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  • My mother in her day was beautiful,
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  • A marilyn monroe lookalike.
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  • She loved the attention that was showered on her.
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  • Married and divorced seven times with a lot of boyfriends in
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  • Between, she would often drag me along to smoke-filled bars as
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  • I watched various men try their pathetic pickup lines on my mom.
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  • I never knew my biological father.
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  • As it turns out i was conceived out of wedlock,
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  • The product of a one night stand.
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  • In many ways i was the adult in the relationship,
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  • Having to look out for my mom.
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  • So after a night of barhopping, she'd be
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  • So intoxicated she could barely walk.
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  • So we'd go home and i'd make her a sandwich, but she
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  • Would usually pass out before it was done.
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  • I felt alone in the world.
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  • But of the seven husbands that my mother married there was one
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  • Man named oscar laurie who adopted me, and that name laurie
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  • Has a family motto that means it buds afresh.
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  • In the image on the coat of arms is a tree that is cut down but
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  • Is growing back again, and that was really my life.
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  • It was cut down, but it was growing back again.
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  • We made our way eventually to southern california and i was
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  • Hoping that my life would get better, but in
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  • Many ways it actually ended up worse.
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  • I grew up as a young man, and it was the late '60s, and the drug
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  • Revolution was here in full force, and i thought drugs might
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  • Have the answer i was searching for.
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  • I never met an adult i respected.
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  • I actually was in rebellion against all adult
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  • Figures in my life, and the phrase of the day
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  • Was, "never trust anyone over 30."
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  • That actually resonated with me.
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  • We blindly followed the pied pipers of our generation that
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  • Told us to turn on, tune in, and drop out.
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  • But soon these musicians that we looked up to all began to die.
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  • Janis joplin, jimi hendrix, jim morrison of the doors, brian
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  • Jones of the stones ironically all day--died at the age of 27.
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  • We were told that drugs would make us more aware,
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  • And in a way that was true because i became
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  • More aware about how empty i was.
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  • One night we drove down to laguna beach to buy a kilo of
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  • Marijuana not to sell but to use ourselves, but as we drove back
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  • In the rain our vehicle began to careen and spin out of control
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  • And i thought i was going to die and i heard a voice
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  • Saying to me, "you're going to die."
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  • Male: steer right, man! steer right.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: slow down.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: slow down. slow down.
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  • Slow down. slow down.
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  • Slow--slow down!
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  • Male: are you all right back there, man?
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  • Greg: get me out of here.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Male: get out of the road, man.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: [yells]
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: i don't want to die. i don't want to die.
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  • I don't want to die. i don't want to die.
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  • I don't want to die.
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  • Lonnie frisbee: hey, hey. you're all right.
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  • Hey, hey, hey. you're all right, brother.
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  • Greg: i'm dying. i'm gonna die.
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  • Lonnie: that's the drugs lying to you, man.
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  • You're alive.
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  • I promise you.
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  • What's your name?
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  • Greg: greg. greg.
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  • Lonnie: it's all right. it's all right.
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  • I'm lonnie.
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  • You ran past my house screaming and i just followed you.
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  • Just breathe.
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  • Greg: lonnie, be honest with me, man.
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  • You're really here? are you really here?
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  • Lonnie: yeah, man.
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  • I'm really here, and i'm going to sit
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  • With you here as long as it takes.
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  • Okay?
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  • What are you doing out here? what are you running from?
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  • Greg: i don't know.
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  • Lonnie: hey. hey, where are you going?
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  • Hey, greg.
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  • God says, "you don't have to run anymore."
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  • Greg: so that's a scene from my life.
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  • But i didn't know where the answer was.
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  • I knew the answer was not in drugs.
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  • I already found that out from experience.
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  • I knew the answer was not in the sometimes affluent
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  • Lifestyle that my live--mother lived.
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  • So where was the answer?
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  • Because as a young man i was asking the questions,
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  • "what is the meaning of my life?
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  • Why am i here on this earth?
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  • Why am i so empty inside, and what's
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  • Going to happen to me after i die?"
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  • Because life goes by so quickly.
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  • Someone summed up life this way.
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  • Number one, you believe in santa claus.
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  • Number two, you don't believe in santa claus.
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  • Number three, you become santa claus.
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  • And lastly, you look like santa claus.
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  • So i think that's where i am in life right now.
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  • But here's my question for you. your life is going by quickly.
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  • Are you a happy person, are you a content person, or does it
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  • Seem like if you were a little bit smarter or a little bit
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  • Better looking or a little bit more successful,
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  • Then you would suddenly be content?
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  • You know, when you're single you think, "oh man, if i was only
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  • Married, then i know i would be happy."
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  • Then you get married, and you say, "huh, uh, okay.
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  • Maybe i married the wrong person.
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  • Maybe if i got remarried, i would be happy."
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  • So you get remarried.
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  • "okay, well, maybe that's not it.
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  • Hey, maybe it's kids. i need kids.
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  • If we had children--" then you have children, and then you're
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  • Thinkin', "how do i get rid of these kids?
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  • They're 40 and still living at home."
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  • You know, it's always just beyond your reach, right?
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  • "oh, if i had a lot of money, money
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  • Would make me happy," you think.
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  • I heard that the powerball is up to $1.6 billion right now.
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  • Can you imagine that?
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  • "oh, if i had that, i would be happy," you think.
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  • It reminds me of a story of a wealthy employer who once
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  • Overheard one of his employees say, "if i had $1,000
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  • I would be perfectly content."
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  • The employer pulled out his checkbook and said,
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  • "i'll tell you what.
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  • I've never found contentment from my money, but i wanna meet
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  • A perfectly content person."
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  • So he wrote out a check to the person
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  • For $1,000 and gave it to them.
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  • As he was walking away, the person was overheard to say,
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  • "why didn't i ask for $2,000?"
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  • See, that's--that's the way that we are.
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  • If i had just a little bit more.
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  • Take anthony bourdain.
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  • He had a very successful television show on cnn,
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  • "parts unknown."
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  • He traveled the world, lived a luxurious lifestyle,
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  • Ate the finest food.
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  • He had wealth, he had fame, he had everything--but yet, he
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  • Wrote in a letter to his wife, quote, "i hate my fans.
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  • I hate being famous.
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  • I hate my job.
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  • I'm lonely and i'm living in constant uncertainty,"
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  • End quote.
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  • And tragically, anthony bourdain took his own life.
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  • We think, if only i had another life,
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  • Or if i had another face or body.
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  • You know, we put so much emphasis
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  • Today on the way that we look.
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  • Sixteen billiion dollars is spent a year on plastic surgery,
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  • And that's in newport beach alone.
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  • Now when you mention botox, nobody even raises an eyebrow.
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  • These are the jokes, people.
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  • I heard about a plastic surgery addict
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  • Support group that meets weekly.
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  • There's a lot of new faces in the group every week.
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  • All right, all the people who have had botox are saying,
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  • "i don't think that's funny."
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  • And i can't lower my eyebrows, and i don't know what to do.
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  • Sorry.
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  • But listen.
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  • It's not a thing you're looking for.
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  • Greg: now, some of you, god is a perpetually uptight, angry,
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  • Supreme being just waiting to wreak havoc in our life.
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  • Nothing can be further from the truth.
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  • The god who created you loves you and has a plan for you
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  • That's far better than any plan you've ever dreamed up for
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  • Yourself, but we think god's angry, god's out to get us.
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  • But it's the very opposite.
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  • If he's out to get us, it's only to throw his arms around
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  • Us and tell us how much he loves us.
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  • So what is god like?
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  • What is god like?
  • 00:14:25.140 --> 00:14:26.775
  • Well, i can't think of a better source on
  • 00:14:26.775 --> 00:14:28.510
  • That topic than jesus christ himself.
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  • And jesus told a story we sometimes call the story of the
  • 00:14:31.747 --> 00:14:35.517
  • Prodigal son, but it's a beautiful story that always
  • 00:14:35.517 --> 00:14:40.389
  • Makes sense to pretty much any culture in the world.
  • 00:14:40.389 --> 00:14:43.692
  • Young or old, everyone seems to understand this simple story,
  • 00:14:43.692 --> 00:14:48.364
  • And jesus told lots of stories so people could
  • 00:14:48.364 --> 00:14:51.400
  • Understand what he was talking about.
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  • So here's the story jesus told.
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  • Maybe you've never heard it before.
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  • He said, "a man had two sons.
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  • The younger son said to his dad, 'i want my share of the estate
  • 00:14:59.708 --> 00:15:03.045
  • Now instead of waiting until you die.'
  • 00:15:03.045 --> 00:15:05.748
  • So the father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons.
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  • A few days later, the son packed all of his belongings and took a
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  • Trip to a distant land and there he wasted all of his money on
  • 00:15:13.622 --> 00:15:17.626
  • Wild living.
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  • About this time his money ran out and a great famine swept
  • 00:15:18.961 --> 00:15:22.031
  • Over the land and he began to starve, and the boy persuaded a
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  • Local farmer to feed him the food that was being fed to the
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  • Pigs because the boy was so hungry even the food he was
  • 00:15:30.806 --> 00:15:34.677
  • Feeding the pigs looked good to him.
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  • But no one gave him anything."
  • 00:15:37.513 --> 00:15:40.582
  • So as the story begins we have a boy deciding to run away from
  • 00:15:40.582 --> 00:15:43.886
  • Home, but really this is a story jesus tells that is a
  • 00:15:43.886 --> 00:15:47.389
  • Picture of us trying to run away from god.
  • 00:15:47.389 --> 00:15:51.493
  • Now, it looks like he had a pretty good home
  • 00:15:51.493 --> 00:15:53.829
  • Because as we get to the end of the story we see
  • 00:15:53.829 --> 00:15:55.831
  • The father welcome him with open arms.
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  • So this was an affectionate home, a loving home, also was an
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  • Affluent home because they had servants.
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  • I don't know what kind of home you came from.
  • 00:16:05.374 --> 00:16:07.710
  • Maybe you had loving parents. maybe you had no parents.
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  • But regardless of whatever home you've come from, i want you to
  • 00:16:11.447 --> 00:16:14.183
  • Know that you have a father in heaven who loves
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  • You and wants a relationship with you.
  • 00:16:16.819 --> 00:16:23.158
  • But apparently this boy thought, you know,
  • 00:16:23.158 --> 00:16:24.660
  • "i'm tired of dad's rules.
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  • I want to live the way that i want to live."
  • 00:16:26.362 --> 00:16:28.597
  • And sometimes we will say, "well,
  • 00:16:28.597 --> 00:16:29.932
  • I don't want to live this christian life.
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  • I don't like all these rules that the bible has."
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  • Any rules, so to speak, or principle given to us in
  • 00:16:34.303 --> 00:16:38.173
  • Scripture is there for our own protection.
  • 00:16:38.173 --> 00:16:42.177
  • You know, we think the worst thing that could
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  • Happen is to put an animal in a cage.
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  • My grandkids used to have a little rabbit.
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  • His name was fuzzy.
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  • And they were very little, and they would take
  • 00:16:49.318 --> 00:16:51.787
  • Him out and play with him in a rather rough
  • 00:16:51.787 --> 00:16:54.289
  • Way and fuzzy didn't like it one bit.
  • 00:16:54.289 --> 00:16:57.192
  • And one day i was taking fuzzy back to his cage and i came to
  • 00:16:57.192 --> 00:17:00.329
  • Where the cage was and he leapt out of my arms to
  • 00:17:00.329 --> 00:17:03.265
  • Get back into his cage again because for fuzzy
  • 00:17:03.265 --> 00:17:07.403
  • That was not a cage keeping him inside.
  • 00:17:07.403 --> 00:17:09.772
  • It was a cage keeping the grandkids out, right?
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  • So when i look at god's standards when he says, "you
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  • Shall not steal, you shall not lie, you shall not commit
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  • Adultery, you shall not take the name of the lord in vain," these
  • 00:17:19.948 --> 00:17:23.919
  • Are standards and truths given for our own protection, and
  • 00:17:23.919 --> 00:17:28.924
  • We--these rules are there to protect us, not to hurt us.
  • 00:17:28.924 --> 00:17:32.561
  • But this boy thought, "dad's lame.
  • 00:17:32.561 --> 00:17:35.097
  • He doesn't know how to live. i'm going to go live my life."
  • 00:17:35.097 --> 00:17:38.901
  • And the father let him go.
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  • Listen, god has given you a free will.
  • 00:17:40.769 --> 00:17:43.305
  • He won't force his will on you.
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  • You don't have to go to heaven if you don't want to.
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  • Are you running from god tonight?
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  • He longs for a relationship with you.
  • 00:17:52.114 --> 00:17:54.516
  • This boy wasted all of his money on wild living.
  • 00:17:54.516 --> 00:17:58.187
  • I'm sure he had a lot of friends when he hit town, when he had
  • 00:17:58.187 --> 00:18:01.323
  • Money, when he had resources, when he had a cool car or, in
  • 00:18:01.323 --> 00:18:04.927
  • His case, a cool chariot or whatever.
  • 00:18:04.927 --> 00:18:08.330
  • "oh, we're going to hang out with this guy."
  • 00:18:08.330 --> 00:18:10.899
  • But then when the money was gone, the friends were gone too.
  • 00:18:10.899 --> 00:18:14.470
  • Reminds me of a story of two friends that went camping
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  • Out in the forest, and they were getting
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  • Up in the morning, having their first cup of coffee,
  • 00:18:19.274 --> 00:18:22.678
  • They heard a rustling in the trees, and suddenly they looked,
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  • And running toward them at full speed was a very large bear.
  • 00:18:26.215 --> 00:18:29.785
  • One of the friends began to put his running shoes on.
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  • His buddy said, "are you crazy?
  • 00:18:32.621 --> 00:18:34.690
  • Do you think you can outrun that bear?"
  • 00:18:34.690 --> 00:18:36.692
  • He says, "i don't need to outrun the bear.
  • 00:18:36.692 --> 00:18:38.627
  • I need to outrun you, see."
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  • That's how some so-called friends are, they run out
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  • When trouble comes.
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  • That's what happened to the prodigal.
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  • All of his friends left him.
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  • He was all alone.
  • 00:18:50.439 --> 00:18:51.940
  • And the bible says, jesus speaking, he came to his senses.
  • 00:18:51.940 --> 00:18:56.512
  • And it's an amazing thing.
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  • Listen, there's nothing i can say here tonight that will make
  • 00:18:58.213 --> 00:19:01.416
  • You believe in jesus christ, but i believe in the power of the
  • 00:19:01.416 --> 00:19:05.120
  • Gospel and i know how it changed my life,
  • 00:19:05.120 --> 00:19:08.657
  • And i believe there can come a moment where suddenly
  • 00:19:08.657 --> 00:19:11.426
  • The lights go on and you just get it, right?
  • 00:19:11.426 --> 00:19:14.863
  • You just get it.
  • 00:19:14.863 --> 00:19:17.699
  • I used to think christians were crazy.
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  • I made fun of them. i laughed at them.
  • 00:19:20.235 --> 00:19:22.437
  • I thought, "these poor delusional people."
  • 00:19:22.437 --> 00:19:25.541
  • And it was on my high school campus many years ago that i sat
  • 00:19:25.541 --> 00:19:30.345
  • Down close enough to where the christians were because they
  • 00:19:30.345 --> 00:19:33.115
  • Would have bible studies on the front lawn, and i sat close
  • 00:19:33.115 --> 00:19:36.919
  • Enough to hear what they were saying but not close
  • 00:19:36.919 --> 00:19:39.788
  • Enough to be seen as one of them.
  • 00:19:39.788 --> 00:19:42.958
  • And as i watched them i thought, "these people are so sad.
  • 00:19:42.958 --> 00:19:45.827
  • They're so weird. it's so pathetic."
  • 00:19:45.827 --> 00:19:48.330
  • And then i thought, "yeah, but they're
  • 00:19:48.330 --> 00:19:49.665
  • Pretty happy, pathetic people."
  • 00:19:49.665 --> 00:19:53.001
  • And i happened to know a couple of them personally that i used
  • 00:19:53.001 --> 00:19:56.505
  • To party with, and i saw the changes in his life and their
  • 00:19:56.505 --> 00:20:01.009
  • Life and then i just tried a new thought out for size
  • 00:20:01.009 --> 00:20:04.546
  • "what if it's all true?
  • 00:20:04.546 --> 00:20:06.848
  • What if the christians have this right?
  • 00:20:06.848 --> 00:20:09.451
  • What if there really is a god who loves me
  • 00:20:09.451 --> 00:20:11.620
  • And i could have a relationship with him?"
  • 00:20:11.620 --> 00:20:13.488
  • I quickly dismissed it.
  • 00:20:13.488 --> 00:20:15.090
  • Let me tell you why i dismissed it.
  • 00:20:15.090 --> 00:20:17.259
  • Because i was a cynical young man.
  • 00:20:17.259 --> 00:20:20.095
  • Because i'd seen things no young boy should ever see in my
  • 00:20:20.095 --> 00:20:23.999
  • Upbringing with my alcoholic mother and all of
  • 00:20:23.999 --> 00:20:27.169
  • Her escapades, not to mention my own bad
  • 00:20:27.169 --> 00:20:29.504
  • Lifestyle choices that i myself had made.
  • 00:20:29.504 --> 00:20:32.441
  • I was cynical.
  • 00:20:32.441 --> 00:20:33.942
  • I thought, "it's too good to be true."
  • 00:20:33.942 --> 00:20:36.545
  • But then i watched those christians a little bit more and
  • 00:20:36.545 --> 00:20:38.547
  • I thought, "but what if it's true?"
  • 00:20:38.547 --> 00:20:40.882
  • Then i said, "no, it couldn't be true."
  • 00:20:40.882 --> 00:20:43.118
  • And then that man who was preaching that day, lonnie
  • 00:20:43.118 --> 00:20:45.988
  • Frisbee who's portrayed in the film, made a statement that was
  • 00:20:45.988 --> 00:20:50.158
  • Like a lightning bolt from heaven.
  • 00:20:50.158 --> 00:20:51.927
  • He said jesus said, "you're for me or against me.
  • 00:20:51.927 --> 00:20:55.430
  • You're with me or you're opposed to me."
  • 00:20:55.430 --> 00:20:58.133
  • I looked around at the christians
  • 00:20:58.133 --> 00:20:59.501
  • And i thought, "well, i'm not one of them.
  • 00:20:59.501 --> 00:21:01.937
  • Does that mean i'm against god?
  • 00:21:01.937 --> 00:21:04.439
  • I don't want to be against god."
  • 00:21:04.439 --> 00:21:06.341
  • And then he said, "if you want jesus christ to come into your
  • 00:21:06.341 --> 00:21:08.844
  • Life, get up and walk forward right now."
  • 00:21:08.844 --> 00:21:11.013
  • And a bunch of kids got up and walked forward, and i thought,
  • 00:21:11.013 --> 00:21:13.415
  • "there's no way i would ever do that."
  • 00:21:13.415 --> 00:21:16.918
  • A moment later i was up there with those kids praying and that
  • 00:21:16.918 --> 00:21:20.289
  • Was the day christ came into my life, and this
  • 00:21:20.289 --> 00:21:23.158
  • Can be the night christ comes into your life.
  • 00:21:23.158 --> 00:21:28.196
  • It can happen for you.
  • 00:21:28.196 --> 00:21:30.532
  • So this boy finally comes to his senses, says, "you know what?
  • 00:21:30.532 --> 00:21:34.136
  • I got to go home."
  • 00:21:34.136 --> 00:21:35.604
  • He realized that everything he was looking
  • 00:21:35.604 --> 00:21:37.439
  • For in life was in his father's house.
  • 00:21:37.439 --> 00:21:41.610
  • He says, "i'm going to go home to dad, say,
  • 00:21:41.610 --> 00:21:43.111
  • 'dad, i'm sorry, i've sinned.
  • 00:21:43.111 --> 00:21:44.780
  • I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
  • 00:21:44.780 --> 00:21:46.948
  • Just get me a job as one of your hired servants.'"
  • 00:21:46.948 --> 00:21:49.885
  • And he's repeating this over and over again as
  • 00:21:49.885 --> 00:21:51.920
  • He's making his way back home again.
  • 00:21:51.920 --> 00:21:55.457
  • Now, here's the father probably sitting on the porch of his
  • 00:21:55.457 --> 00:21:59.661
  • Ranch house missing that boy of his, longing for his return.
  • 00:21:59.661 --> 00:22:05.967
  • The father looks down the road and recognizes that familiar
  • 00:22:05.967 --> 00:22:09.171
  • Silhouette of his boy bowed down now some
  • 00:22:09.171 --> 00:22:13.608
  • With age and perhaps the guilt of sin.
  • 00:22:13.608 --> 00:22:16.445
  • And i love how the story ends because as the boy is making his
  • 00:22:16.445 --> 00:22:20.582
  • Way home jesus says this in luke 15, "while he was
  • 00:22:20.582 --> 00:22:24.252
  • Still a long ways off, his father saw him.
  • 00:22:24.252 --> 00:22:27.189
  • With his heart pounding he ran out,
  • 00:22:27.189 --> 00:22:29.191
  • Embraced him, and kissed him."
  • 00:22:29.191 --> 00:22:30.892
  • The son started his speech.
  • 00:22:30.892 --> 00:22:32.327
  • "father, i've sinned against god and i've sinned before you.
  • 00:22:32.327 --> 00:22:35.897
  • I don't deserve to be called your son again."
  • 00:22:35.897 --> 00:22:37.999
  • But jesus says the father wasn't listening.
  • 00:22:37.999 --> 00:22:41.269
  • He called to the servants, "quick,
  • 00:22:41.269 --> 00:22:42.671
  • He says, "bring out a set of clothes.
  • 00:22:42.671 --> 00:22:44.940
  • Put the family ring in his finger and sandals on his feet
  • 00:22:44.940 --> 00:22:48.610
  • And get out the grain-fed heifer and roast it.
  • 00:22:48.610 --> 00:22:51.046
  • We're going to have a feast.
  • 00:22:51.046 --> 00:22:52.447
  • We're going to have a wonderful time.
  • 00:22:52.447 --> 00:22:54.349
  • My son who was dead is alive again."
  • 00:22:54.349 --> 00:22:58.653
  • And they began to have a wonderful time.
  • 00:22:58.653 --> 00:23:03.325
  • And then jesus says, "and i say unto you there is joy in heaven
  • 00:23:03.325 --> 00:23:09.664
  • Over one sinner that comes to repentance."
  • 00:23:09.664 --> 00:23:14.736
  • What a beautiful story this is.
  • 00:23:14.736 --> 00:23:18.273
  • Notice that the father welcomed the son as he was.
  • 00:23:18.273 --> 00:23:21.510
  • The boy was dirty.
  • 00:23:21.510 --> 00:23:22.911
  • The boy smelled like the company he
  • 00:23:22.911 --> 00:23:25.747
  • Was keeping, which would be pigs.
  • 00:23:25.747 --> 00:23:28.850
  • And the father didn't say, "well, clean yourself up, boy.
  • 00:23:28.850 --> 00:23:31.787
  • I'm downwind of you. you smell horrible."
  • 00:23:31.787 --> 00:23:34.623
  • He threw his arms around his son.
  • 00:23:34.623 --> 00:23:37.092
  • But what did he do then?
  • 00:23:37.092 --> 00:23:38.460
  • He said, "give him some new clothes
  • 00:23:38.460 --> 00:23:40.429
  • And put a ring on his finger."
  • 00:23:40.429 --> 00:23:41.763
  • Listen, you might say, "i've messed up in life, and i'm going
  • 00:23:41.763 --> 00:23:45.033
  • To clean my life up and try to become more moral
  • 00:23:45.033 --> 00:23:47.936
  • And more religious and then i'll come to god."
  • 00:23:47.936 --> 00:23:50.405
  • Listen, don't try to clean your life up and come to god,
  • 00:23:50.405 --> 00:23:53.608
  • Come to god and he will clean your life up.
  • 00:23:53.608 --> 00:23:56.244
  • You just come as you are.
  • 00:23:56.244 --> 00:24:00.949
  • You say, "well, what do i--what am i supposed to do?"
  • 00:24:00.949 --> 00:24:03.185
  • You need to repent of your sin.
  • 00:24:03.185 --> 00:24:05.921
  • The bible says god has commanded people everywhere to repent.
  • 00:24:05.921 --> 00:24:09.891
  • What does repent mean? it's a military term.
  • 00:24:09.891 --> 00:24:12.928
  • It means to do an about face so you turn around.
  • 00:24:12.928 --> 00:24:16.431
  • Instead of running from god, you run to god.
  • 00:24:16.431 --> 00:24:18.667
  • Like the prodigal, he was running from his father then he
  • 00:24:18.667 --> 00:24:21.903
  • Realized that was wrong and he ran back to his father.
  • 00:24:21.903 --> 00:24:25.240
  • Repent of your sin.
  • 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:28.210
  • Then you must receive christ into your life.
  • 00:24:28.210 --> 00:24:32.414
  • Being a christian is not just trying
  • 00:24:32.414 --> 00:24:35.217
  • To live by rules and regulations.
  • 00:24:35.217 --> 00:24:38.186
  • Being a christian is not just going to church.
  • 00:24:38.186 --> 00:24:42.023
  • Being a christian is having christ himself
  • 00:24:42.023 --> 00:24:45.827
  • Come and take residence in your heart.
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  • Does jesus live in your heart right now?
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  • You say, "well, i'm not sure. maybe."
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  • Wait. hold on.
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  • If a bunch of people moved into your house in the middle of the
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  • Night and they were, like, cooking fish at 3 in the
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  • Morning, do you think you would know?
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  • I'm not suggesting jesus is like that.
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  • I'm just saying if someone moved into
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  • Your home, would you be aware?
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  • The answer is yes.
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  • So if god almighty has taken residence
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  • In your heart, i think you'll know.
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  • And if you can't say, "i know with certainty,"
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  • Then maybe he hasn't done that yet.
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  • The bible says for as many as received him,
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  • He gave them the power to become sons of god.
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  • Jesus says, "behold, i stand at the door and i knock, and
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  • If you'll hear my voice and open the door, i will come in."
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  • People, it's not about religion, it's about
  • 00:25:34.476 --> 00:25:38.179
  • A relationship with god through jesus.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • Could you use some good news in a bad world?
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  • I've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and he has a plan for your life.
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  • Ah, but there's some bad news.
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  • The bad news is, we've sinned against god.
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  • We've broken his commandments.
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  • But here's what god did.
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  • He sent his son, jesus christ, to die on a cross for our sins
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  • And rise again from the dead.
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  • Listen to this, if you ask jesus to come into your life, your sin
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  • Is forgiven and you'll go to heaven.
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  • If you want jesus to come into your life,
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  • Just pray a prayer like this.
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  • "jesus, come into my life.
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  • Forgive me of my sin.
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  • I've fallen short of your glory.
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  • I wanna know you.
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  • I want a relationship with you.
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  • In jesus's name, i pray. amen."
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