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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Lost Boy - So Cal 2022

July 13, 2025 | S25 E166 | 29:0

Greg Laurie - Lost Boy - So Cal 2022
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
#inActive #PersonalStory #Testimony #Movies/Film #ProdigalSon #Hope #RelationshipwithGod #Culture #Heart'sDesire #Drugs #Emptiness

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Lost Boy - So Cal 2022 | July 13, 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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  • ♪ 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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  • 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.
  • 00:11:12.628 --> 00:11:14.864
  • 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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  • It's always just beyond our reach.
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  • If i had this, if i had that, then i would be happy.
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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.
  • 00:13:07.109 --> 00:13:09.845
  • 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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  • Greg: hey, everybody, pastor greg laurie here with some
  • 00:13:45.781 --> 00:13:47.716
  • Thoughts about sharing your faith.
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  • You know, i think we're reluctant to tell others about
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  • Jesus because we feel as though we're gonna somehow fall flat on
  • 00:13:53.689 --> 00:13:57.192
  • Our face or mess it up, but think of it this way: when
  • 00:13:57.192 --> 00:14:00.462
  • Someone asks you for a good place to eat, are you reluctant
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  • To tell them what your favorite restaurant is?
  • 00:14:03.532 --> 00:14:06.335
  • Or if someone says, "hey, have you seen any
  • 00:14:06.335 --> 00:14:08.170
  • Good movies lately?"
  • 00:14:08.170 --> 00:14:09.738
  • Are you apprehensive about telling them about
  • 00:14:09.738 --> 00:14:11.907
  • A film you just saw?
  • 00:14:11.907 --> 00:14:13.242
  • Probably the opposite, "oh, i just saw this great film,"
  • 00:14:13.242 --> 00:14:15.778
  • Or "oh, i had this great meal at this place."
  • 00:14:15.778 --> 00:14:17.746
  • It's called a "recommendation."
  • 00:14:17.746 --> 00:14:19.415
  • I mean, what is yelp?
  • 00:14:19.415 --> 00:14:20.749
  • Yelp is a place where we go and basically read the
  • 00:14:20.749 --> 00:14:23.619
  • Opinions of total strangers and maybe eat in that
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  • Place upon that recommendation.
  • 00:14:26.155 --> 00:14:28.557
  • So think of evangelism this way: it's offering a recommendation,
  • 00:14:28.557 --> 00:14:33.295
  • Saying, "here's what christ has done for me,
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  • And i recommend that to you."
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  • Don't be so afraid to do it.
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  • People are searching for truth.
  • 00:14:41.170 --> 00:14:43.138
  • People are searching for hope.
  • 00:14:43.138 --> 00:14:45.341
  • People are searching for meaning in life, and you have the
  • 00:14:45.341 --> 00:14:47.843
  • Greatest recommendation of all.
  • 00:14:47.843 --> 00:14:50.446
  • So i encourage you to look for new ways to start evangelistic
  • 00:14:50.446 --> 00:14:55.284
  • Conversations, and make that recommendation that
  • 00:14:55.284 --> 00:14:58.954
  • People believe in jesus christ.
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  • Greg: so what is god like?
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  • What is god like?
  • 00:15:06.595 --> 00:15:08.230
  • Well, i can't think of a better source on
  • 00:15:08.230 --> 00:15:09.965
  • That topic than jesus christ himself.
  • 00:15:09.965 --> 00:15:13.202
  • And jesus told a story we sometimes call the story of the
  • 00:15:13.202 --> 00:15:16.972
  • Prodigal son, but it's a beautiful story that always
  • 00:15:16.972 --> 00:15:21.844
  • 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
  • 00:15:29.818 --> 00:15:32.855
  • 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
  • 00:15:51.106 --> 00:15:55.077
  • Trip to a distant land and there he wasted all of his money on
  • 00:15:55.077 --> 00:15:59.081
  • Wild living.
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  • About this time his money ran out and a great famine swept
  • 00:16:00.416 --> 00:16:03.485
  • 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
  • 00:16:12.261 --> 00:16:16.131
  • Feeding the pigs looked good to him.
  • 00:16:16.131 --> 00:16:18.967
  • But no one gave him anything."
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  • So as the story begins we have a boy deciding to run away from
  • 00:16:22.037 --> 00:16:25.340
  • Home, but really this is a story jesus tells that is a
  • 00:16:25.340 --> 00:16:28.844
  • Picture of us trying to run away from god.
  • 00:16:28.844 --> 00:16:32.948
  • 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
  • 00:16:35.284 --> 00:16:37.286
  • The father welcome him with open arms.
  • 00:16:37.286 --> 00:16:40.589
  • 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.
  • 00:16:46.829 --> 00:16:49.164
  • 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
  • 00:16:52.901 --> 00:16:55.637
  • Know that you have a father in heaven who loves
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  • You and wants a relationship with you.
  • 00:16:58.273 --> 00:17:04.613
  • But apparently this boy thought, you know,
  • 00:17:04.613 --> 00:17:06.115
  • "i'm tired of dad's rules.
  • 00:17:06.115 --> 00:17:07.816
  • I want to live the way that i want to live."
  • 00:17:07.816 --> 00:17:10.052
  • And sometimes we will say, "well,
  • 00:17:10.052 --> 00:17:11.386
  • I don't want to live this christian life.
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  • I don't like all these rules that the bible has."
  • 00:17:13.122 --> 00:17:15.757
  • Any rules, so to speak, or principle given to us in
  • 00:17:15.757 --> 00:17:19.628
  • Scripture is there for our own protection.
  • 00:17:19.628 --> 00:17:23.632
  • You know, we think the worst thing that could
  • 00:17:23.632 --> 00:17:25.000
  • Happen is to put an animal in a cage.
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  • My grandkids used to have a little rabbit.
  • 00:17:27.603 --> 00:17:29.438
  • His name was fuzzy.
  • 00:17:29.438 --> 00:17:30.772
  • And they were very little, and they would take
  • 00:17:30.772 --> 00:17:33.242
  • Him out and play with him in a rather rough
  • 00:17:33.242 --> 00:17:35.744
  • Way and fuzzy didn't like it one bit.
  • 00:17:35.744 --> 00:17:38.647
  • And one day i was taking fuzzy back to his cage and i came to
  • 00:17:38.647 --> 00:17:41.783
  • Where the cage was and he leapt out of my arms to
  • 00:17:41.783 --> 00:17:44.720
  • Get back into his cage again because for fuzzy
  • 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:48.857
  • That was not a cage keeping him inside.
  • 00:17:48.857 --> 00:17:51.226
  • It was a cage keeping the grandkids out, right?
  • 00:17:51.226 --> 00:17:55.164
  • So when i look at god's standards when he says, "you
  • 00:17:55.164 --> 00:17:57.633
  • Shall not steal, you shall not lie, you shall not commit
  • 00:17:57.633 --> 00:18:01.403
  • Adultery, you shall not take the name of the lord in vain," these
  • 00:18:01.403 --> 00:18:05.374
  • Are standards and truths given for our own protection, and
  • 00:18:05.374 --> 00:18:10.379
  • We--these rules are there to protect us, not to hurt us.
  • 00:18:10.379 --> 00:18:14.016
  • But this boy thought, "dad's lame.
  • 00:18:14.016 --> 00:18:16.552
  • He doesn't know how to live. i'm going to go live my life."
  • 00:18:16.552 --> 00:18:20.355
  • 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.
  • 00:18:33.569 --> 00:18:35.971
  • This boy wasted all of his money on wild living.
  • 00:18:35.971 --> 00:18:39.641
  • I'm sure he had a lot of friends when he hit town, when he had
  • 00:18:39.641 --> 00:18:42.778
  • Money, when he had resources, when he had a cool car or, in
  • 00:18:42.778 --> 00:18:46.381
  • His case, a cool chariot or whatever.
  • 00:18:46.381 --> 00:18:49.785
  • "oh, we're going to hang out with this guy."
  • 00:18:49.785 --> 00:18:52.354
  • But then when the money was gone, the friends were gone too.
  • 00:18:52.354 --> 00:18:55.924
  • Reminds me of a story of two friends that went camping
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  • Out in the forest, and they were getting
  • 00:18:58.293 --> 00:19:00.729
  • Up in the morning, having their first cup of coffee,
  • 00:19:00.729 --> 00:19:04.132
  • They heard a rustling in the trees, and suddenly they looked,
  • 00:19:04.132 --> 00:19:07.669
  • And running toward them at full speed was a very large bear.
  • 00:19:07.669 --> 00:19:11.240
  • One of the friends began to put his running shoes on.
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  • His buddy said, "are you crazy?
  • 00:19:14.076 --> 00:19:16.144
  • Do you think you can outrun that bear?"
  • 00:19:16.144 --> 00:19:18.146
  • He says, "i don't need to outrun the bear.
  • 00:19:18.146 --> 00:19:20.082
  • 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.
  • 00:19:31.893 --> 00:19:33.395
  • And the bible says, jesus speaking, he came to his senses.
  • 00:19:33.395 --> 00:19:37.966
  • And it's an amazing thing.
  • 00:19:37.966 --> 00:19:39.668
  • Listen, there's nothing i can say here tonight that will make
  • 00:19:39.668 --> 00:19:42.871
  • You believe in jesus christ, but i believe in the power of the
  • 00:19:42.871 --> 00:19:46.575
  • Gospel and i know how it changed my life,
  • 00:19:46.575 --> 00:19:50.112
  • And i believe there can come a moment where suddenly
  • 00:19:50.112 --> 00:19:52.881
  • The lights go on and you just get it, right?
  • 00:19:52.881 --> 00:19:56.318
  • You just get it.
  • 00:19:56.318 --> 00:19:59.154
  • I used to think christians were crazy.
  • 00:19:59.154 --> 00:20:01.690
  • I made fun of them. i laughed at them.
  • 00:20:01.690 --> 00:20:03.892
  • I thought, "these poor delusional people."
  • 00:20:03.892 --> 00:20:06.995
  • And it was on my high school campus many years ago that i sat
  • 00:20:06.995 --> 00:20:11.800
  • Down close enough to where the christians were because they
  • 00:20:11.800 --> 00:20:14.569
  • Would have bible studies on the front lawn, and i sat close
  • 00:20:14.569 --> 00:20:18.373
  • Enough to hear what they were saying but not close
  • 00:20:18.373 --> 00:20:21.243
  • Enough to be seen as one of them.
  • 00:20:21.243 --> 00:20:24.413
  • And as i watched them i thought, "these people are so sad.
  • 00:20:24.413 --> 00:20:27.282
  • They're so weird. it's so pathetic."
  • 00:20:27.282 --> 00:20:29.785
  • And then i thought, "yeah, but they're
  • 00:20:29.785 --> 00:20:31.119
  • Pretty happy, pathetic people."
  • 00:20:31.119 --> 00:20:34.456
  • And i happened to know a couple of them personally that i used
  • 00:20:34.456 --> 00:20:37.959
  • To party with, and i saw the changes in his life and their
  • 00:20:37.959 --> 00:20:42.464
  • Life and then i just tried a new thought out for size
  • 00:20:42.464 --> 00:20:46.001
  • "what if it's all true?
  • 00:20:46.001 --> 00:20:48.303
  • What if the christians have this right?
  • 00:20:48.303 --> 00:20:50.906
  • What if there really is a god who loves me
  • 00:20:50.906 --> 00:20:53.075
  • And i could have a relationship with him?"
  • 00:20:53.075 --> 00:20:54.943
  • I quickly dismissed it.
  • 00:20:54.943 --> 00:20:56.545
  • Let me tell you why i dismissed it.
  • 00:20:56.545 --> 00:20:58.714
  • Because i was a cynical young man.
  • 00:20:58.714 --> 00:21:01.550
  • Because i'd seen things no young boy should ever see in my
  • 00:21:01.550 --> 00:21:05.454
  • Upbringing with my alcoholic mother and all of
  • 00:21:05.454 --> 00:21:08.623
  • Her escapades, not to mention my own bad
  • 00:21:08.623 --> 00:21:10.959
  • Lifestyle choices that i myself had made.
  • 00:21:10.959 --> 00:21:13.895
  • I was cynical.
  • 00:21:13.895 --> 00:21:15.397
  • I thought, "it's too good to be true."
  • 00:21:15.397 --> 00:21:17.999
  • But then i watched those christians a little bit more and
  • 00:21:17.999 --> 00:21:20.001
  • I thought, "but what if it's true?"
  • 00:21:20.001 --> 00:21:22.337
  • Then i said, "no, it couldn't be true."
  • 00:21:22.337 --> 00:21:24.573
  • And then that man who was preaching that day, lonnie
  • 00:21:24.573 --> 00:21:27.442
  • Frisbee who's portrayed in the film, made a statement that was
  • 00:21:27.442 --> 00:21:31.613
  • Like a lightning bolt from heaven.
  • 00:21:31.613 --> 00:21:33.382
  • He said jesus said, "you're for me or against me.
  • 00:21:33.382 --> 00:21:36.885
  • You're with me or you're opposed to me."
  • 00:21:36.885 --> 00:21:39.588
  • I looked around at the christians
  • 00:21:39.588 --> 00:21:40.956
  • And i thought, "well, i'm not one of them.
  • 00:21:40.956 --> 00:21:43.392
  • Does that mean i'm against god?
  • 00:21:43.392 --> 00:21:45.894
  • I don't want to be against god."
  • 00:21:45.894 --> 00:21:47.796
  • And then he said, "if you want jesus christ to come into your
  • 00:21:47.796 --> 00:21:50.298
  • Life, get up and walk forward right now."
  • 00:21:50.298 --> 00:21:52.467
  • And a bunch of kids got up and walked forward, and i thought,
  • 00:21:52.467 --> 00:21:54.870
  • "there's no way i would ever do that."
  • 00:21:54.870 --> 00:21:58.373
  • A moment later i was up there with those kids praying and that
  • 00:21:58.373 --> 00:22:01.743
  • Was the day christ came into my life, and this
  • 00:22:01.743 --> 00:22:04.613
  • Can be the night christ comes into your life.
  • 00:22:04.613 --> 00:22:09.651
  • It can happen for you.
  • 00:22:09.651 --> 00:22:11.987
  • So this boy finally comes to his senses, says, "you know what?
  • 00:22:11.987 --> 00:22:15.590
  • I got to go home."
  • 00:22:15.590 --> 00:22:17.058
  • He realized that everything he was looking
  • 00:22:17.058 --> 00:22:18.894
  • For in life was in his father's house.
  • 00:22:18.894 --> 00:22:23.064
  • He says, "i'm going to go home to dad, say,
  • 00:22:23.064 --> 00:22:24.566
  • 'dad, i'm sorry, i've sinned.
  • 00:22:24.566 --> 00:22:26.234
  • I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
  • 00:22:26.234 --> 00:22:28.403
  • Just get me a job as one of your hired servants.'"
  • 00:22:28.403 --> 00:22:31.339
  • And he's repeating this over and over again as
  • 00:22:31.339 --> 00:22:33.375
  • He's making his way back home again.
  • 00:22:33.375 --> 00:22:36.912
  • Now, here's the father probably sitting on the porch of his
  • 00:22:36.912 --> 00:22:41.116
  • Ranch house missing that boy of his, longing for his return.
  • 00:22:41.116 --> 00:22:47.422
  • The father looks down the road and recognizes that familiar
  • 00:22:47.422 --> 00:22:50.625
  • Silhouette of his boy bowed down now some
  • 00:22:50.625 --> 00:22:55.063
  • With age and perhaps the guilt of sin.
  • 00:22:55.063 --> 00:22:57.899
  • And i love how the story ends because as the boy is making his
  • 00:22:57.899 --> 00:23:02.037
  • Way home jesus says this in luke 15, "while he was
  • 00:23:02.037 --> 00:23:05.707
  • Still a long ways off, his father saw him.
  • 00:23:05.707 --> 00:23:08.643
  • With his heart pounding he ran out,
  • 00:23:08.643 --> 00:23:10.645
  • Embraced him, and kissed him."
  • 00:23:10.645 --> 00:23:12.347
  • The son started his speech.
  • 00:23:12.347 --> 00:23:13.782
  • "father, i've sinned against god and i've sinned before you.
  • 00:23:13.782 --> 00:23:17.352
  • I don't deserve to be called your son again."
  • 00:23:17.352 --> 00:23:19.454
  • But jesus says the father wasn't listening.
  • 00:23:19.454 --> 00:23:22.724
  • He called to the servants, "quick,
  • 00:23:22.724 --> 00:23:24.125
  • He says, "bring out a set of clothes.
  • 00:23:24.125 --> 00:23:26.394
  • Put the family ring in his finger and sandals on his feet
  • 00:23:26.394 --> 00:23:30.065
  • And get out the grain-fed heifer and roast it.
  • 00:23:30.065 --> 00:23:32.501
  • We're going to have a feast.
  • 00:23:32.501 --> 00:23:33.902
  • We're going to have a wonderful time.
  • 00:23:33.902 --> 00:23:35.804
  • My son who was dead is alive again."
  • 00:23:35.804 --> 00:23:40.108
  • And they began to have a wonderful time.
  • 00:23:40.108 --> 00:23:44.779
  • And then jesus says, "and i say unto you there is joy in heaven
  • 00:23:44.779 --> 00:23:51.119
  • Over one sinner that comes to repentance."
  • 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:56.191
  • What a beautiful story this is.
  • 00:23:56.191 --> 00:23:59.728
  • Notice that the father welcomed the son as he was.
  • 00:23:59.728 --> 00:24:02.964
  • The boy was dirty.
  • 00:24:02.964 --> 00:24:04.366
  • The boy smelled like the company he
  • 00:24:04.366 --> 00:24:07.202
  • Was keeping, which would be pigs.
  • 00:24:07.202 --> 00:24:10.305
  • And the father didn't say, "well, clean yourself up, boy.
  • 00:24:10.305 --> 00:24:13.241
  • I'm downwind of you. you smell horrible."
  • 00:24:13.241 --> 00:24:16.077
  • He threw his arms around his son.
  • 00:24:16.077 --> 00:24:18.547
  • But what did he do then?
  • 00:24:18.547 --> 00:24:19.915
  • He said, "give him some new clothes
  • 00:24:19.915 --> 00:24:21.883
  • And put a ring on his finger."
  • 00:24:21.883 --> 00:24:23.218
  • Listen, you might say, "i've messed up in life, and i'm going
  • 00:24:23.218 --> 00:24:26.488
  • To clean my life up and try to become more moral
  • 00:24:26.488 --> 00:24:29.391
  • And more religious and then i'll come to god."
  • 00:24:29.391 --> 00:24:31.860
  • Listen, don't try to clean your life up and come to god,
  • 00:24:31.860 --> 00:24:35.063
  • Come to god and he will clean your life up.
  • 00:24:35.063 --> 00:24:37.699
  • 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
  • 00:26:15.930 --> 00:26:19.634
  • A relationship with god through jesus.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie. i've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is that 2,000 years ago, god sent
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  • His son, jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin,
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  • And then to rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
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  • To come into your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior, who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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  • From this moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven has heard you.
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  • Congratulations, and welcome to the family of god.
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