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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Make A Difference

May 29, 2025 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - Make A Difference
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Make A Difference | May 29, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: you are an influencer.
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  • You have a platform and you have a following.
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  • Now, it could be on social media but in your world you have a
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  • Sphere of influence where you influence other people.
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  • So it really comes down to this.
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  • Are you a good or are you a bad influence?
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪
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  • ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪♪
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  • Greg: did you know that the biggest celebrities in america
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  • Today are not movie stars, they're not rock stars, they're
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  • Not tv stars, they're media stars, specifically social
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  • Media stars.
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  • They're called influencers.
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  • Now, some social media people have a lot of followers, over
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  • 900 million.
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  • I looked it up to see who had the most followers.
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  • The number one person out there is cristiano ronaldo with 901
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  • Million followers.
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  • I didn't even know who he was.
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  • He's what they would call a footballer.
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  • We might call him a soccer player.
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  • And then there's lionel messi and he has 496 followers, selena
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  • Gomez, she has 430 million followers.
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  • I've heard of her.
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  • Kylie jenner, 399 million followers.
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  • Dwayne johnson, the rock, he has 395 million followers.
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  • Ariana grande has 380 million followers.
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  • Funny thing, i got an ariana grande at starbucks this morning
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  • And it was very good.
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  • And then kim kardashian has 364 million.
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  • Oh, is that all?
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  • You know, but that's a lot of followers, and because of this,
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  • A lot of young people today are thinking, now why would i want
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  • To go work over there when i could be an influencer and
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  • Monetize my platform and make a living doing this?
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  • One study found that fortune and fame were the first and second
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  • Goals of millennials.
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  • So what are your goals in life?
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  • Number one, fortune and fame.
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  • Number two, fortune and fame, okay?
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  • One in four millennials would quit their jobs to
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  • Become famous.
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  • One in six preferred fame to having children.
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  • One in 12 admitted they would disown their family to
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  • Be famous.
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  • We're taking it a little too far here but why do we have this
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  • Desire to be famous?
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  • Why would we want a lot of followers?
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  • I think it's because, deep down inside, we want our lives to
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  • Matter, we want significance, we want to be noticed.
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  • I don't think those are bad things, by the way, but let's
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  • Just say for the sake of a point, you had 900 million
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  • Followers on your instagram page.
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  • What would you say to them?
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  • "well, i would post a photo of myself."
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  • Okay, what else?
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  • "and my new outfit."
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  • Yeah, what else?
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  • "i have some cool cat videos."
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  • Okay, really?
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  • Listen to this.
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  • You are an influencer.
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  • You have a platform and you have a following.
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  • Now, it could be on social media but in your world you have a
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  • Sphere of influence where you influence other people.
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  • So it really comes down to this.
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  • Are you a good or are you a bad influence?
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  • Here's what jesus said 2000 years ago, that is very relevant
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  • To this topic of influencing others.
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  • Matthew 5, starting in verse 13, he says: "you are the salt of
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  • The earth; but if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be
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  • Made salty again?
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  • It's no longer good for anything, except to be thrown
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  • Out and trampled underfoot.
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  • You are the light of the world.
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  • A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.
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  • Neither do people put a lamp and--get a lamp and put it
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  • Under a bowl.
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  • Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to
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  • Everyone in the house.
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  • In the same way, let your light shine to others, that they may
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  • See your good deeds and glorify your father in heaven."
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • Salt and light.
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  • Why did jesus use these two word pictures?
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  • Answer: because the world is a dark and corrupt place and it
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  • Needs salt and it needs light.
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  • You know, despite all of our advances in every field, from
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  • Science and medicine and education and technology, we
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  • Just go from bad to worse.
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  • Matter--modern man has just found more ways to corrupt and
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  • Destroy himself.
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  • We go from war to greater war, from crime to greater crime,
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  • From immorality to greater immorality, from perversion to
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  • Greater perversion.
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  • We're just playing out the truth of the scripture that says: "the
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  • Heart is deceitfully wicked above all things.
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  • Who can know it?"
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  • You know, if you believe that man is basically good, you're
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  • Gonna be very disappointed in life.
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  • But once you accept the biblical premise, that man is not
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  • Basically good, man, and when i speak of man, i'm speaking of
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  • All humanity.
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  • We are sinners separated from god, bringing me to point number
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  • Two, something they think that they can evade the culture
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  • Through isolation.
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  • You know, you try to remove yourselves and your children
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  • From our culture, but your culture will find you.
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  • And so i think we need to do everything we can to prepare
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  • Ourselves and our children to live in the real world as
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  • Followers of jesus christ.
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  • And so we want to be the salt of the earth.
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  • Our goal as christians is not to isolate but to infiltrate and
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  • Impact culture without being compromised by it.
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  • Let me say that again.
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  • Our goal as christians is not to isolate but to infiltrate and
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  • Impact culture without being compromised by it.
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  • It's a tricky balance.
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  • Jesus put it this way in john 17.
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  • In his prayer to the father, he said, "i'm not asking you to
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  • Take them out of the world, but to keep them safe from the evil
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  • One and i am sending them into the world."
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  • Wow, jesus is saying, "i'm sending you into the world."
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  • So we're effectively living behind enemy lines.
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  • As an old hymn says, "this world is not my home.
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  • I'm just a-passing through."
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  • It's important to remember that.
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  • So here's point number three, as christians, we need to invade,
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  • Not evade, the culture.
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  • Invade, not evade.
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  • So we try to engage people and they don't seem to be listening
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  • To us and you may wonder why.
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  • You might say, "hey, you know, i try to talk to people about
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  • Jesus and they just terminate the conversation."
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  • Okay, what did you say to them?
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  • "well, i saw this non-believer and i said, 'hey,
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  • Uncircumcised philistine.'"
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  • Okay, there's part of the problem.
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  • That's a good way to burn a bridge.
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  • "'have you been washed in the blood, sanctified,
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  • Justified, redeemed?
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  • And have you become a part of the body of christ?'
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  • And they turned around and walked away."
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  • They don't even know what you're talking about.
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  • You just told them to be washed in blood and get in some body.
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  • What?
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  • We cannot assume that our listeners today understand what
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  • We're talking about.
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  • America, in particular, has never been more biblically
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  • Illiterate than it is right now.
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  • I've been preaching 50 years and people were more literate
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  • Biblically when i started than when they are--than they
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  • Are today.
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  • And so i don't think we can assume that our listener
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  • Understands even our terminology.
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  • We need to break things down, explain them, and try to find
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  • Common ground with them and build a bridge to them.
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  • Paul wrote in 1 corinthians 9:22: "i try to find common
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  • Ground with everyone so i can bring them to christ.
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  • I do all of this to spread the good news."
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  • Here at harvest, our objective is to reach as many people as
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  • We can.
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  • That's point number four, we need to bring them the message
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  • Of the gospel.
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  • Now, when you bring the gospel message, know this:
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  • It's powerful.
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  • That's why paul said, "i'm not ashamed of the gospel.
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  • It is the power of god unto salvation to everyone
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  • Who believes."
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  • And the word that he used for power is a word that means
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  • Explosive, okay?
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  • Not everyone's gonna respond favorably to this message.
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  • In 2 corinthians 2 paul says, wherever we go, the lord uses us
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  • To tell others about him and it's like good news.
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  • Like a sweet perfume, our lives are like a fragrance, but the
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  • Fragrance is perceived differently from those who are
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  • Being saved to those who are perishing.
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  • So to some, it's a fragrance.
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  • To another--to others, not so much.
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  • You know, some people wear too much cologne or perfume.
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  • Am i right?
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  • How do you know who they are?
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  • They're usually sitting by themselves because they come to
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  • Church, all the seats around them are empty.
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  • If they give you a hug, you smell like whatever scent they
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  • Were wearing 2 hours later, you smell like chanel number 5 and,
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  • Sadly, it was a guy.
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  • Okay, so--but it's like garlic.
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  • You know, garlic is great when you're cooking, but it's not so
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  • Great on your breath afterwards, is it?
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  • So when we live as christians, for some, it's
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  • A sweet fragrance.
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  • They love it.
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  • For others, they actually find what we say and do offensive.
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  • And so that's what paul is saying, bringing me to point
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  • Number five: before i can effectively tell them, i must
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  • First live it.
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  • There's nothing worse than a hypocritical christian.
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  • The world is looking for authenticity.
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  • They're looking for you to be real.
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  • We must be before we can effectively speak.
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  • We need to practice what we preach and we are to be salt.
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  • Let's go back to that statement of jesus again, verse 13:
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  • “you're the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses
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  • Its saltiness, how can it be made salty again?
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  • It's no longer good for anything except to be thrown out
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  • And trampled under foot."
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  • Greg: you know, sometimes the world is so bad, as christians
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  • We feel like we wanna isolate and live in a christian city and
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  • Go to christian restaurants and drive christian cars and have
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  • Christian dogs and christian cats.
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  • Maybe not christian cats.
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  • But the idea is not to isolate, it's to infiltrate.
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  • Jesus said, "you are the salt of the earth.
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  • But if the salt has lost its saltiness, what good is it?"
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  • Then he goes on to say: "it's good for nothing."
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  • So back in the first century, salt was really valuable.
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  • They would even pay roman soldiers in salt.
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  • Hence the term, "he's not worth his salt."
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  • So the purpose of salt back in that culture was to restrain.
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  • You would rub it into meat to stop it from rotting, so it
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  • Would last longer.
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  • So the christian is a restraining influence in
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  • The culture.
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  • We speak out against what is wrong.
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  • We speak up for what is right.
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  • And i'll tell you what, when the church is called home to heaven
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  • In the rapture, all hell is gonna break loose on
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  • Planet earth.
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  • The bible says, "he who is now restraining will do so until he
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  • Is taken out of the way.
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  • Then that wicked one whom the lord will destroy with the
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  • Brightness of his coming will be revealed."
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  • So he who is now restraining is the holy spirit working with
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  • The church.
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  • When we're taken out of the way, when we're caught up to meet the
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  • Lord in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, then the
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  • Antichrist will emerge on the scene and the tribulation period
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  • Will begin.
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  • So right now, we're a restraining force in the world.
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  • We're the salt of the earth.
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  • But another thing that salt does is it stimulates thirst, right?
  • 00:12:07.325 --> 00:12:12.130
  • If you go to a movie theater and you get some popcorn and why do
  • 00:12:12.197 --> 00:12:16.134
  • They serve such giant servings?
  • 00:12:16.134 --> 00:12:18.103
  • It's like the size of a wheel-out trash can.
  • 00:12:18.103 --> 00:12:20.872
  • Here it's this size and then you get a little thirsty because
  • 00:12:20.872 --> 00:12:24.109
  • Maybe they over-salt it.
  • 00:12:24.109 --> 00:12:25.477
  • Can i get a little cup of water?
  • 00:12:25.477 --> 00:12:27.112
  • "i'm sorry, we're not allowed to put water in cups."
  • 00:12:27.112 --> 00:12:29.914
  • Oh, give me a break.
  • 00:12:29.914 --> 00:12:31.282
  • Okay, so, but you can buy water--in this giant container.
  • 00:12:31.282 --> 00:12:33.818
  • Anyway, salt stimulates thirst.
  • 00:12:33.818 --> 00:12:36.254
  • And i think when a christian is being salty, if you will, they
  • 00:12:36.254 --> 00:12:40.258
  • Will stimulate others to be thirsty for god.
  • 00:12:40.258 --> 00:12:43.061
  • If we're not being the salt, then really we're good for
  • 00:12:43.061 --> 00:12:46.397
  • Nothing, according to jesus.
  • 00:12:46.397 --> 00:12:48.566
  • It's sort of like decaf coffee.
  • 00:12:48.633 --> 00:12:50.902
  • You know, people go to a coffee place, they order, "i'll have
  • 00:12:50.902 --> 00:12:54.239
  • A decaf lavender latte made out of oat milk with extra syrup."
  • 00:12:54.239 --> 00:13:00.111
  • Why don't you just go to 31 flavors?
  • 00:13:00.111 --> 00:13:02.347
  • I mean, that's not even really coffee, is it?
  • 00:13:02.347 --> 00:13:04.482
  • But we have decaf disciples, uncarbonated christians.
  • 00:13:04.549 --> 00:13:09.587
  • And we wanna keep that saltiness, restrain evil and
  • 00:13:09.587 --> 00:13:14.926
  • Also cause others to be thirsty for jesus.
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  • Be the salt of the earth.
  • 00:13:18.396 --> 00:13:20.498
  • Greg: when you're a salty christian in the best use of
  • 00:13:23.802 --> 00:13:27.172
  • That word you will stimulate in others of thirst for god.
  • 00:13:27.172 --> 00:13:31.376
  • One of the greatest compliments people can pay to a
  • 00:13:31.376 --> 00:13:34.579
  • Christian is when they ask, "why are you the way that you are?"
  • 00:13:34.579 --> 00:13:38.983
  • But here's a problem.
  • 00:13:38.983 --> 00:13:40.318
  • It's when we're not salty enough.
  • 00:13:40.318 --> 00:13:43.421
  • Jesus says in matthew 5:13, "if the salt loses its saltiness,
  • 00:13:43.488 --> 00:13:47.859
  • What good is it?
  • 00:13:48.593 --> 00:13:49.961
  • It's not good for anything."
  • 00:13:49.961 --> 00:13:51.563
  • "not good for anything."
  • 00:13:51.629 --> 00:13:52.997
  • Those are pretty heavy-duty words.
  • 00:13:52.997 --> 00:13:55.366
  • Years ago, we were traveling to europe, we were speaking at some
  • 00:13:55.433 --> 00:13:58.703
  • Pastors conferences and i bought something called a backpack
  • 00:13:58.703 --> 00:14:02.941
  • Stroller because jonathan was a little guy and i had to put him
  • 00:14:02.941 --> 00:14:08.413
  • In a stroller and then i had a backpack to carry him around and
  • 00:14:08.413 --> 00:14:10.882
  • I didn't want to take all of that hardware overseas.
  • 00:14:10.882 --> 00:14:14.185
  • So i said, "well, this is a great idea.
  • 00:14:14.185 --> 00:14:15.820
  • It's one device that does both: a backpack stroller."
  • 00:14:15.820 --> 00:14:18.890
  • And i didn't test it out till i got there.
  • 00:14:18.957 --> 00:14:21.359
  • And i opened this thing up and it was the worst designed object
  • 00:14:21.426 --> 00:14:24.662
  • Of all time because you had to hold it up the whole time.
  • 00:14:24.662 --> 00:14:28.333
  • There were no back wheels.
  • 00:14:28.333 --> 00:14:29.767
  • So you're in the little stroller, but there's no back
  • 00:14:29.767 --> 00:14:32.804
  • Wheels so you can't lay it down.
  • 00:14:32.804 --> 00:14:34.372
  • So you just have to hold it.
  • 00:14:34.372 --> 00:14:35.707
  • And i thought, "this is impractical."
  • 00:14:35.707 --> 00:14:37.375
  • And then when i put it on in the backpack form, the wheels dug
  • 00:14:37.442 --> 00:14:40.645
  • Into my back.
  • 00:14:40.645 --> 00:14:42.247
  • So i discarded it.
  • 00:14:42.313 --> 00:14:43.915
  • It was worthless.
  • 00:14:43.982 --> 00:14:45.350
  • And we still, to this day, use that expression.
  • 00:14:45.350 --> 00:14:47.819
  • We'll look at something that doesn't seem to be working and
  • 00:14:47.819 --> 00:14:50.121
  • We'll say, "it's a backpack stroller," right?
  • 00:14:50.121 --> 00:14:53.091
  • A backpack stroller, an unsalty christian.
  • 00:14:55.493 --> 00:15:00.331
  • Notice that jesus says first we are to be salt, then we are to
  • 00:15:00.398 --> 00:15:03.868
  • Be light.
  • 00:15:03.868 --> 00:15:05.737
  • First you're salt, then you're light.
  • 00:15:05.803 --> 00:15:08.106
  • Why is it given in this order?
  • 00:15:08.172 --> 00:15:10.742
  • Well, first the salt, i have a preserving effect.
  • 00:15:10.742 --> 00:15:13.544
  • I create in others a thirst for god.
  • 00:15:14.312 --> 00:15:16.881
  • And then having acted as salt, i can function as light and,
  • 00:15:16.948 --> 00:15:21.052
  • Effectively, i earn the right to be heard, see?
  • 00:15:21.052 --> 00:15:25.189
  • "well, you know what, i admire your life," a non-believer says.
  • 00:15:25.256 --> 00:15:29.327
  • "look at your family.
  • 00:15:29.394 --> 00:15:30.728
  • How do you raise kids like that in this world today," they ask
  • 00:15:30.728 --> 00:15:36.668
  • As their baby is looking at an ipad in their stroller, or
  • 00:15:36.668 --> 00:15:40.705
  • They're letting their kids behave in a crazy way with
  • 00:15:40.705 --> 00:15:43.675
  • Complete disrespect and total irresponsibility, or they ask
  • 00:15:43.675 --> 00:15:48.313
  • You, "how can you have a smile on your face when you're going
  • 00:15:48.313 --> 00:15:51.616
  • Through the hardship you're going through?"
  • 00:15:51.616 --> 00:15:53.985
  • You know, so you've been salt.
  • 00:15:53.985 --> 00:15:55.386
  • Now, you've earned the right to be light and so you live it,
  • 00:15:55.386 --> 00:15:59.924
  • Then you speak it.
  • 00:15:59.924 --> 00:16:01.259
  • Point number eight: light exposes the darkness.
  • 00:16:01.259 --> 00:16:04.829
  • It exposes the darkness.
  • 00:16:04.829 --> 00:16:06.898
  • It's funny how in the dark you can't find something, flip on
  • 00:16:06.965 --> 00:16:09.567
  • The light and you find it.
  • 00:16:09.567 --> 00:16:11.202
  • You're driving in your car at night and you're eating a
  • 00:16:11.269 --> 00:16:13.972
  • Burrito and you drop it and lose it.
  • 00:16:13.972 --> 00:16:16.441
  • The next morning you turn the lights on, you find that burrito
  • 00:16:16.507 --> 00:16:19.377
  • And the one you lost 2 weeks ago as well, which, by the way, has
  • 00:16:19.377 --> 00:16:23.047
  • Become its own life form and has climbed up into your child's car
  • 00:16:23.047 --> 00:16:26.250
  • Seat and strapped itself in, so.
  • 00:16:26.250 --> 00:16:28.853
  • But this is the thing, light shows you things you would not
  • 00:16:28.920 --> 00:16:31.990
  • Otherwise see.
  • 00:16:31.990 --> 00:16:33.324
  • And in the same way when a christian is living as they
  • 00:16:33.324 --> 00:16:35.793
  • Should, their mere presence in a room changes the temperature, it
  • 00:16:35.793 --> 00:16:40.698
  • Changes the dynamic.
  • 00:16:40.698 --> 00:16:42.133
  • Here comes the salty light bulb.
  • 00:16:42.133 --> 00:16:45.536
  • Hey, how's it going?
  • 00:16:45.603 --> 00:16:46.971
  • I mean, they're in the middle of telling a dirty joke and they're
  • 00:16:46.971 --> 00:16:49.674
  • Having a good time and all of a sudden you walk in and the
  • 00:16:49.674 --> 00:16:52.176
  • Conversation stops.
  • 00:16:52.176 --> 00:16:54.212
  • I kinda like that.
  • 00:16:54.278 --> 00:16:55.947
  • Here comes the representative of jesus christ.
  • 00:16:56.014 --> 00:16:59.684
  • What's even worse is when you know the punch line to the joke.
  • 00:16:59.751 --> 00:17:03.654
  • Be that salt, be that light, be that person that makes a
  • 00:17:03.721 --> 00:17:08.393
  • Difference, but don't expect a standing ovation.
  • 00:17:08.393 --> 00:17:11.996
  • Jesus said, "this is the condemnation.
  • 00:17:12.897 --> 00:17:15.199
  • Light has come into the world, but men love darkness rather
  • 00:17:15.199 --> 00:17:19.070
  • Than light, because their deeds are evil.
  • 00:17:19.070 --> 00:17:21.506
  • And everyone who is evil practices evil and they hate the
  • 00:17:21.506 --> 00:17:25.576
  • Light and they don't come to the light, lest their deeds
  • 00:17:25.576 --> 00:17:28.813
  • Should be exposed."
  • 00:17:28.813 --> 00:17:30.815
  • And that can happen without you even saying a word.
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  • Listen, few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
  • 00:17:33.985 --> 00:17:39.457
  • Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
  • 00:17:39.524 --> 00:17:42.427
  • When you're a good example, it drives people crazy.
  • 00:17:42.427 --> 00:17:45.596
  • They wanna see you mess up, they wanna see you fall short so they
  • 00:17:45.663 --> 00:17:49.400
  • Can say "hypocrite," right?
  • 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:51.803
  • You keep your light shining and how does that light shine?
  • 00:17:51.869 --> 00:17:56.107
  • It shines through good works.
  • 00:17:56.107 --> 00:17:58.309
  • Listen, people don't care about how much you know, until they
  • 00:17:58.376 --> 00:18:02.647
  • Know how much you care.
  • 00:18:02.647 --> 00:18:05.016
  • You may win the theological debate and blow your listener
  • 00:18:05.083 --> 00:18:10.154
  • Out of the water.
  • 00:18:10.154 --> 00:18:11.489
  • Yeah, you know what?
  • 00:18:11.489 --> 00:18:12.824
  • You're smart, you had the answers but you're mean and i
  • 00:18:12.824 --> 00:18:16.194
  • Don't wanna talk to you anymore.
  • 00:18:16.194 --> 00:18:18.229
  • But then you can be a loving person and help someone.
  • 00:18:18.296 --> 00:18:20.598
  • "let me help you change your tire.
  • 00:18:20.598 --> 00:18:22.600
  • Let me help you do this thing you need done.
  • 00:18:22.667 --> 00:18:25.470
  • Let me assist you," and they go, "wow, i really like this
  • 00:18:25.470 --> 00:18:27.672
  • Person," and their heart will open up to you.
  • 00:18:27.672 --> 00:18:30.942
  • So we need to show people and i think that christians do this
  • 00:18:31.008 --> 00:18:35.480
  • So well.
  • 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:36.981
  • Yeah, we want to preach the gospel, but we'll show our good
  • 00:18:37.048 --> 00:18:39.984
  • Works in practical ways as well.
  • 00:18:39.984 --> 00:18:42.253
  • Through our church, harvest riverside, harvest orange
  • 00:18:42.253 --> 00:18:46.023
  • County, and harvest maui, we've done so much in this last
  • 00:18:46.023 --> 00:18:50.394
  • Year alone.
  • 00:18:50.394 --> 00:18:52.163
  • As last easter was approaching, we gave away 1,500 easter
  • 00:18:52.163 --> 00:18:57.235
  • Baskets for little children that had really nothing.
  • 00:18:57.235 --> 00:19:00.104
  • We hosted a back-to-school event in partnership with in-n-out
  • 00:19:00.171 --> 00:19:03.975
  • Burger and the department of education.
  • 00:19:04.041 --> 00:19:06.110
  • It helped 6,000 people.
  • 00:19:06.110 --> 00:19:08.112
  • We gave out 4,000 backpacks filled with things that children
  • 00:19:08.112 --> 00:19:12.283
  • Need and we provided free dental care.
  • 00:19:12.283 --> 00:19:15.153
  • We didn't do it ourselves.
  • 00:19:15.153 --> 00:19:16.521
  • We had actual dentists do it.
  • 00:19:16.521 --> 00:19:17.855
  • I want you to know that.
  • 00:19:17.855 --> 00:19:19.223
  • Be frightening, "here, let me do--drill."
  • 00:19:19.223 --> 00:19:21.159
  • No, not that.
  • 00:19:21.159 --> 00:19:22.793
  • And we--they were given haircuts by professionals.
  • 00:19:22.793 --> 00:19:25.997
  • Again, people who volunteered their time, and they were given
  • 00:19:25.997 --> 00:19:29.634
  • Medical screenings and they were given free burgers and fries
  • 00:19:29.634 --> 00:19:34.405
  • From in-n-out burger.
  • 00:19:34.405 --> 00:19:36.207
  • And then over on maui after the devastating wildfires that
  • 00:19:36.207 --> 00:19:40.778
  • Destroyed so many homes and lives were lost as well, we were
  • 00:19:40.778 --> 00:19:44.615
  • There offering food pallets filled with water, diapers,
  • 00:19:44.615 --> 00:19:49.187
  • Other necessities.
  • 00:19:49.187 --> 00:19:50.521
  • We gave away hundreds of bibles to people and prayed with
  • 00:19:50.521 --> 00:19:55.059
  • Hundreds of people and hosted events for families that were
  • 00:19:55.059 --> 00:19:59.297
  • Demoralized and devastated by the effects of that fire.
  • 00:19:59.297 --> 00:20:03.968
  • We had an evangelism team go over and share the gospel and
  • 00:20:03.968 --> 00:20:07.638
  • 100 people made a profession of faith.
  • 00:20:07.638 --> 00:20:09.574
  • We're all about showing it through good works and it earns
  • 00:20:09.574 --> 00:20:13.578
  • Us--it earns us the right to proclaim the gospel.
  • 00:20:13.578 --> 00:20:21.219
  • Point number 10: let your light shine like you were the only one
  • 00:20:21.219 --> 00:20:25.389
  • In the world.
  • 00:20:25.389 --> 00:20:26.724
  • Let your light shine like you were the only one in the world.
  • 00:20:26.724 --> 00:20:29.627
  • Look at verse 13: "you are the light of the world.
  • 00:20:29.627 --> 00:20:32.396
  • You are the salt of the earth."
  • 00:20:32.396 --> 00:20:33.998
  • You might underline in your bible, "you."
  • 00:20:33.998 --> 00:20:35.833
  • He uses it twice.
  • 00:20:35.833 --> 00:20:37.201
  • "you are the light of the world.
  • 00:20:37.201 --> 00:20:39.503
  • You are the salt of the earth."
  • 00:20:39.503 --> 00:20:41.839
  • In the original language, it would imply you and you alone
  • 00:20:41.839 --> 00:20:46.277
  • Are the salt of the earth.
  • 00:20:46.277 --> 00:20:47.945
  • You and you alone are the light of the world.
  • 00:20:47.945 --> 00:20:50.681
  • Question: what kind of world would we live in today if every
  • 00:20:52.016 --> 00:20:56.153
  • Christian behaved just as you do?
  • 00:20:56.153 --> 00:20:59.090
  • How many would be attracted or turned off to the gospel?
  • 00:20:59.156 --> 00:21:03.761
  • What kind of general opinion do you think people would have of
  • 00:21:03.761 --> 00:21:07.131
  • Christianity if you were its sole representative?
  • 00:21:07.131 --> 00:21:12.136
  • Now you're thinking, "that's kind of a lot of
  • 00:21:12.203 --> 00:21:13.738
  • Pressure, greg."
  • 00:21:13.738 --> 00:21:15.072
  • Hey, news flash, you are its sole representative in your
  • 00:21:15.072 --> 00:21:19.043
  • Sphere of influence, in some cases.
  • 00:21:19.043 --> 00:21:21.345
  • You may be the only christian some people know and they
  • 00:21:21.412 --> 00:21:24.782
  • Haven't even told you this yet, but they're watching you.
  • 00:21:24.782 --> 00:21:27.618
  • And not only are they watching you, they're hoping you slip up.
  • 00:21:27.685 --> 00:21:32.056
  • But when you don't slip up or if you do slip up, you apologize
  • 00:21:32.123 --> 00:21:35.793
  • For it and own it, they say, "there's something different
  • 00:21:35.793 --> 00:21:39.096
  • About that person.
  • 00:21:39.096 --> 00:21:40.431
  • I have to keep my eye on them."
  • 00:21:40.431 --> 00:21:41.799
  • You're being salt, you're stimulating the thirst.
  • 00:21:41.799 --> 00:21:44.101
  • You're doing your job.
  • 00:21:44.101 --> 00:21:45.836
  • Listen, there are five gospels.
  • 00:21:45.836 --> 00:21:49.106
  • "greg, you're mistaken.
  • 00:21:49.173 --> 00:21:50.508
  • There's only four."
  • 00:21:50.508 --> 00:21:51.876
  • No, there's five, actually: matthew, mark, luke, john,
  • 00:21:51.876 --> 00:21:55.680
  • And you.
  • 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:57.014
  • You're the fifth gospel.
  • 00:21:57.014 --> 00:21:58.683
  • You're the only bible some people are ever going to read.
  • 00:21:58.749 --> 00:22:01.986
  • They're literally evaluating christ based on you.
  • 00:22:03.254 --> 00:22:08.626
  • "oh, i can't handle that."
  • 00:22:08.693 --> 00:22:10.027
  • Well, handle it, and do the best that you can, because you and
  • 00:22:10.027 --> 00:22:13.764
  • You alone are the salt of the earth.
  • 00:22:13.764 --> 00:22:15.499
  • You and you alone are the light of the world.
  • 00:22:15.499 --> 00:22:18.069
  • Christians are walking epistles written by god and read by men.
  • 00:22:18.069 --> 00:22:24.041
  • So let's put this all together and wrap it up.
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  • Salt is valuable, it preserves, it stimulates thirst.
  • 00:22:26.177 --> 00:22:30.147
  • Light exposes and shows us the way we do this through good
  • 00:22:30.147 --> 00:22:35.219
  • Works and gospel proclamation.
  • 00:22:35.219 --> 00:22:37.722
  • This is who we are in this culture.
  • 00:22:37.722 --> 00:22:40.224
  • Now i'm asking you, are you doing it?
  • 00:22:40.224 --> 00:22:42.293
  • Listen, you and you alone make a difference.
  • 00:22:42.360 --> 00:22:46.330
  • You have a part to play.
  • 00:22:46.330 --> 00:22:47.732
  • I heard it once said, quote, "i am only one but i am one.
  • 00:22:47.732 --> 00:22:51.635
  • I cannot do everything, but i can do something and what i can
  • 00:22:51.635 --> 00:22:55.639
  • Do i ought to do and what i ought to do, by the
  • 00:22:55.639 --> 00:22:58.042
  • Grace of god, i will do."
  • 00:22:58.042 --> 00:23:01.445
  • So, be the salt and be the light.
  • 00:23:01.445 --> 00:23:04.248
  • Now, let me close.
  • 00:23:04.248 --> 00:23:06.250
  • Some of you listening to what i'm saying are not believers and
  • 00:23:06.317 --> 00:23:10.020
  • You are actually living in darkness.
  • 00:23:10.020 --> 00:23:12.289
  • We all are before we're christians.
  • 00:23:12.289 --> 00:23:14.225
  • We don't know it because, well, it's all we've ever known.
  • 00:23:14.225 --> 00:23:18.062
  • The story is told from history of a castle-like prison in paris
  • 00:23:18.129 --> 00:23:22.767
  • Known as the bastille that was about to be destroyed in 1789.
  • 00:23:22.767 --> 00:23:28.038
  • There was a prisoner who had been confined there for years in
  • 00:23:28.105 --> 00:23:31.809
  • This dark dingy place.
  • 00:23:31.809 --> 00:23:34.311
  • And so, he was released and he came out of his dark prison cell
  • 00:23:34.378 --> 00:23:39.283
  • And the light was so blinding, he turned back and said, "i want
  • 00:23:39.350 --> 00:23:43.521
  • To be kept in the prison.
  • 00:23:43.521 --> 00:23:45.256
  • I wanna die in this prison.
  • 00:23:45.322 --> 00:23:47.124
  • I can't handle the light."
  • 00:23:47.124 --> 00:23:49.693
  • And that's just the problem is you can become too comfortable
  • 00:23:49.760 --> 00:23:52.897
  • In the dark.
  • 00:23:52.897 --> 00:23:54.331
  • And some people are.
  • 00:23:54.331 --> 00:23:55.666
  • You ever notice how bars are so often dark?
  • 00:23:55.666 --> 00:23:58.302
  • I spent a lot of time in bars.
  • 00:23:59.370 --> 00:24:01.272
  • Really?
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  • Yeah, when i was a kid, living with my alcoholic mother who
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  • Seemed to live in bars and i would sit around and wait for
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  • Her to stop drinking so we could go home.
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  • But people living in darkness, they need the light turned on
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  • And here's the problem.
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  • It's not that god will not forgive you, but it's that you
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  • Could come to a point in your life where you would no longer
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  • Want his forgiveness.
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  • The bible says, "harden not your heart if you can hear
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  • His voice."
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  • Every time you hear the gospel and don't respond to it in the
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  • Affirmative, your heart gets a little bit harder.
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  • The bible says, "he who is often reproved, hardens his heart and
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  • He will be cut off.
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  • And that without remedy."
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  • Let me paraphrase that.
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  • You hear the truth, you say no to the truth.
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  • Your heart gets a little tougher.
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  • So some people say, "well, i'll come to christ on my deathbed."
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  • Okay, are you sure you're gonna have a death bed?
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  • For some, death comes suddenly, without warning.
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  • They don't know that day is their last day.
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  • For others, yes, they get older or they get sick and they know
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  • That death is coming and they're told by people to get their
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  • Affairs in order, so they're ready to die.
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  • But you think those people are all open to the gospel?
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  • I would hope so, but i know some people, they've lived so long in
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  • Sin, they're like that prisoner in that prison in paris who's so
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  • Used to the dark, they wanna stay in the dark.
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  • So it's not that you get to a point where god would not
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  • Forgive you, as much as you get to a point where you would not
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  • Want to be forgiven, you see?
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  • Because you've hardened your heart.
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  • The bible says, "seek the lord while he may be found, call upon
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  • Him while he is near.
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  • Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man,
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  • His thoughts.
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  • Let him return to our god who will abundantly pardon."
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  • Greg: have you ever wondered how to find personal happiness?
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  • Hi, i'm pastor greg laurie.
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  • Let me tell you a secret about finding happiness.
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  • The least happy people are the people that live to be happy.
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  • But here's the secret.
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  • The bible says, "happy are the people whose god is the lord."
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  • You will never find happiness from seeking it.
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  • But if you come into a relationship with god through
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  • Jesus, you'll find the happiness you've been looking for in life.
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  • He's just a prayer away.
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  • There's a number on the screen.
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  • You can call that number and i wanna send you a free bible and
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  • Tell you how to be a happy person and come into a
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  • Relationship with god so you have purpose in this life and
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  • The life to come.
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  • You have the hope of heaven.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, at harvest ministries we're committing to reaching
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  • Unexpected people in unexpected places with an
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  • Unexpected message.
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  • And thanks to your financial support, we've been able to
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  • Touch people all over the world with the hope of jesus christ.
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  • So i'm asking you today to continue to support this
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  • Ministry so we can do everything possible to fulfill the
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  • Great commission.
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  • Let's do this together, and let me say in advance,
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  • Thank you and god bless you.
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