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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Lost Boy

July 14, 2025 | S25 E167 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - Lost Boy
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#inActive #WordofGod #RelationshipwithGod #Generations #Hopelessness #Hope #Divorce #Loss #PersonalStory #Overcoming

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Lost Boy | July 14, 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: 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 today on
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  • The way that we look.
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  • $16 billion 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 support group that
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  • Meets weekly, there's a lot of new faces in the group
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  • Every week.
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  • All right.
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  • 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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  • Here's what you're really looking for deep down inside.
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  • You're looking for a relationship with god.
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  • There's a god in heaven who loves you.
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  • He loves you.
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  • Male announcer: "revelation: a book of promises,"
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  • By greg laurie.
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  • The word "revelation" means unveiling.
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  • God's desire is to reveal, not conceal.
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  • And this book unveils pictures of the spirit world,
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  • Great cataclysmic events in store for the planet,
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  • And the coming antichrist.
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  • But as greg laurie explains, the primary objective
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  • Of this book isn't to reveal the antichrist.
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  • It's to reveal jesus christ and his soon coming.
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  • Request "revelation" by greg laurie
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  • When you give today.
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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?
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  • Well, i can't think of a better source on
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  • That topic than jesus christ himself.
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  • And jesus told a story we sometimes call the story of the
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  • Prodigal son, but it's a beautiful story that always
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  • Makes sense to pretty much any culture in the world.
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  • Young or old, everyone seems to understand this simple story,
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  • And jesus told lots of stories so people could
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  • 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
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  • Now instead of waiting until you die.'
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  • 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
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  • Wild living.
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  • About this time his money ran out and a great famine swept
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  • 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
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  • Feeding the pigs looked good to him.
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  • But no one gave him anything."
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  • So as the story begins we have a boy deciding to run away from
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  • Home, but really this is a story jesus tells that is a
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  • Picture of us trying to run away from god.
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  • Now, it looks like he had a pretty good home
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  • Because as we get to the end of the story we see
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • Know that you have a father in heaven who loves
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  • You and wants a relationship with you.
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  • But apparently this boy thought, you know,
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  • "i'm tired of dad's rules.
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  • I want to live the way that i want to live."
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  • And sometimes we will say, "well,
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  • 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
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  • Scripture is there for our own protection.
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  • 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
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  • Him out and play with him in a rather rough
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  • Way and fuzzy didn't like it one bit.
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  • And one day i was taking fuzzy back to his cage and i came to
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  • Where the cage was and he leapt out of my arms to
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  • Get back into his cage again because for fuzzy
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  • That was not a cage keeping him inside.
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  • 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
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  • Are standards and truths given for our own protection, and
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  • We--these rules are there to protect us, not to hurt us.
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  • But this boy thought, "dad's lame.
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  • He doesn't know how to live. i'm going to go live my life."
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  • And the father let him go.
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  • Listen, god has given you a free will.
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  • 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.
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  • This boy wasted all of his money on wild living.
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  • I'm sure he had a lot of friends when he hit town, when he had
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  • Money, when he had resources, when he had a cool car or, in
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  • His case, a cool chariot or whatever.
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  • "oh, we're going to hang out with this guy."
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  • But then when the money was gone, the friends were gone too.
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  • 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,
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  • 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.
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  • One of the friends began to put his running shoes on.
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  • His buddy said, "are you crazy?
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  • Do you think you can outrun that bear?"
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  • He says, "i don't need to outrun the bear.
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  • 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.
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  • And the bible says, jesus speaking, he came to his senses.
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  • And it's an amazing thing.
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  • Listen, there's nothing i can say here tonight that will make
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  • You believe in jesus christ, but i believe in the power of the
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  • Gospel and i know how it changed my life,
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  • And i believe there can come a moment where suddenly
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  • The lights go on and you just get it, right?
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  • You just get it.
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  • I used to think christians were crazy.
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  • I made fun of them. i laughed at them.
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  • I thought, "these poor delusional people."
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  • And it was on my high school campus many years ago that i sat
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  • Down close enough to where the christians were because they
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  • Would have bible studies on the front lawn, and i sat close
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  • Enough to hear what they were saying but not close
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  • Enough to be seen as one of them.
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  • And as i watched them i thought, "these people are so sad.
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  • They're so weird. it's so pathetic."
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  • And then i thought, "yeah, but they're
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  • Pretty happy, pathetic people."
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  • And i happened to know a couple of them personally that i used
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  • To party with, and i saw the changes in his life and their
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  • Life and then i just tried a new thought out for size
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  • "what if it's all true?
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  • What if the christians have this right?
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  • What if there really is a god who loves me
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  • And i could have a relationship with him?"
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  • I quickly dismissed it.
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  • Let me tell you why i dismissed it.
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  • Because i was a cynical young man.
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  • Because i'd seen things no young boy should ever see in my
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  • Upbringing with my alcoholic mother and all of
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  • Her escapades, not to mention my own bad
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  • Lifestyle choices that i myself had made.
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  • I was cynical.
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  • I thought, "it's too good to be true."
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  • But then i watched those christians a little bit more and
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  • I thought, "but what if it's true?"
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  • Then i said, "no, it couldn't be true."
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  • And then that man who was preaching that day, lonnie
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  • Frisbee who's portrayed in the film, made a statement that was
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  • Like a lightning bolt from heaven.
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  • He said jesus said, "you're for me or against me.
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  • You're with me or you're opposed to me."
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  • I looked around at the christians
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  • And i thought, "well, i'm not one of them.
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  • Does that mean i'm against god?
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  • I don't want to be against god."
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  • And then he said, "if you want jesus christ to come into your
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  • Life, get up and walk forward right now."
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  • And a bunch of kids got up and walked forward, and i thought,
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  • "there's no way i would ever do that."
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  • A moment later i was up there with those kids praying and that
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  • Was the day christ came into my life, and this
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  • Can be the night christ comes into your life.
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  • It can happen for you.
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  • So this boy finally comes to his senses, says, "you know what?
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  • I got to go home."
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  • He realized that everything he was looking
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  • For in life was in his father's house.
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  • He says, "i'm going to go home to dad, say,
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  • 'dad, i'm sorry, i've sinned.
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  • I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
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  • Just get me a job as one of your hired servants.'"
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  • And he's repeating this over and over again as
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  • He's making his way back home again.
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  • Now, here's the father probably sitting on the porch of his
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  • Ranch house missing that boy of his, longing for his return.
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  • The father looks down the road and recognizes that familiar
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  • Silhouette of his boy bowed down now some
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  • With age and perhaps the guilt of sin.
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  • And i love how the story ends because as the boy is making his
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  • Way home jesus says this in luke 15, "while he was
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  • Still a long ways off, his father saw him.
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  • With his heart pounding he ran out,
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  • Embraced him, and kissed him."
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  • The son started his speech.
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  • "father, i've sinned against god and i've sinned before you.
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  • I don't deserve to be called your son again."
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  • But jesus says the father wasn't listening.
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  • He called to the servants, "quick,
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  • He says, "bring out a set of clothes.
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  • Put the family ring in his finger and sandals on his feet
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  • And get out the grain-fed heifer and roast it.
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  • We're going to have a feast.
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  • We're going to have a wonderful time.
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  • My son who was dead is alive again."
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  • And they began to have a wonderful time.
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  • And then jesus says, "and i say unto you there is joy in heaven
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  • Over one sinner that comes to repentance."
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  • What a beautiful story this is.
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  • Notice that the father welcomed the son as he was.
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  • The boy was dirty.
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  • The boy smelled like the company he
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  • Was keeping, which would be pigs.
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  • And the father didn't say, "well, clean yourself up, boy.
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  • I'm downwind of you. you smell horrible."
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  • He threw his arms around his son.
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  • But what did he do then?
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  • He said, "give him some new clothes
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  • And put a ring on his finger."
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  • Listen, you might say, "i've messed up in life, and i'm going
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  • To clean my life up and try to become more moral
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  • And more 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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  • You say, "well, what do i--what am i supposed to do?"
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  • You need to repent of your sin.
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  • The bible says god has commanded people everywhere to repent.
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  • What does repent mean? it's a military term.
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  • It means to do an about face so you turn around.
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  • Instead of running from god, you run to god.
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  • Like the prodigal, he was running from his father then he
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  • Realized that was wrong and he ran back to his father.
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  • Repent of your sin.
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  • Then you must receive christ into your life.
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  • Being a christian is not just trying
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  • To live by rules and regulations.
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  • Being a christian is not just going to church.
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  • Being a christian is having christ himself
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  • 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
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  • A relationship with god through jesus.
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  • Greg: have you ever heard the term gospel before?
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  • It means good news.
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  • But before i can fully appreciate the good news,
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  • I have to know the bad news.
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  • You and i were sinners, which means we've broken god's
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  • Commandments, we've fallen short of his standards.
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  • Good news, jesus christ died in our place.
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  • He came to pay a debt he did not owe because we owed a debt we
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  • Could not pay.
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  • If you will turn from your sin
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  • And put your faith in jesus christ, you can be forgiven
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  • And know that you'll go to heaven when you die
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  • And find the meaning of life right here on planet earth.
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  • You just call out to jesus and say:
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  • Forgive me, i want to have a relationship with you.
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  • I would like to send you a bible
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  • At no charge to help you get
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  • Started in your new relationship
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  • With christ.
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  • Greg: you know, the bible says: "a good person
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  • Leaves an inheritance for their children's children."
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  • God encourages all of us as christians to manage
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  • Our money well so we can be a blessing to our families
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  • And to others.
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  • Harvest has a special gift for you today, an opportunity
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  • To set up a will or a living trust completely free of charge.
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  • Here's how you can learn more.
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  • Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest
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  • We partnered with our friends at freewill.
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  • Freewill is an easy to use estate planning tool
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  • That allows you to make planned gifts to organizations
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  • Of your choice.
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  • It's a creative opportunity to support the work we're doing
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  • Here at harvest ministries.
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  • So as you make your plans, i hope you'll consider
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  • Investing in this ministry so we can continue
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  • To preach the gospel and teach the word of god
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  • For years to come.
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  • You can learn more at freewill.com/harvest.
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