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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - A New Beginning For A World Changer

July 30, 2025 | S25 E181 | 27:40

Greg Laurie - A New Beginning For A World Changer
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - A New Beginning For A World Changer | July 30, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: jesus said, "seek first the kingdom of god
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  • And his righteousness, and all these things
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  • Shall be added to you" what you'll eat, what you'll drink,
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  • What you'll wear.
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  • Put god first in your marriage and you watch how it changes.
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  • Put god first in your finances and you watch
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  • How they'll change.
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  • Put god first in your relationships.
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  • Put god first in your career.
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  • Put him first, give the best, he gave his best to you.
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  • ♪♪♪
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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: you know, for me it's always a great thing
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  • To start something fresh.
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  • You know, the first day of spring, i love that.
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  • I love it when with our watches and our clocks,
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  • We spring forward, you know.
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  • I hate it when we fall back because all of a sudden
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  • It's like dark at three o'clock in the afternoon and you know,
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  • You lose all that sunlight and it's like getting
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  • A whole new part of a day when we spring forward.
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  • I like the way everything looks after it rains even people
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  • With dirty cars, get a car wash on that day.
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  • Or if you're an artist, i like to sit down
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  • With a clean sheet of paper.
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  • I just met a professional cartoonist who's a christian,
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  • And we were visiting for a while and we had two pieces of paper
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  • And he had a bunch of cool pens, and we're just drawing
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  • Back and forth, it was so fun.
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  • You know, when you're an artist, you'll love to do that,
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  • A blank sheet of paper.
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  • And also what's great, is the second chance
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  • After you have failed, and i would also add
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  • The end of a great trial where you can have a fresh start
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  • Or a new beginning.
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  • That's what we find before us here in exodus chapter 12.
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  • Moses, the world changer, was about to change
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  • The world for the captives of egypt, the nation, israel.
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  • He was gonna lead them to a new beginning and a new land.
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  • And the way he did this all was by faith and that is the theme
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  • Of hebrews 11.
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  • It's great men and women of god, who had courage,
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  • And took risks, and changed the world around them,
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  • And they all did it by faith.
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  • And so we read about moses in hebrews 11 verse 25,
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  • "it was by faith that moses commanded the people of israel
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  • To keep the passover and to sprinkle blood on the doorposts
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  • So that the angel of death would not kill their firstborn sons."
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  • But just see before this was gonna happen,
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  • Moses himself needed a new beginning
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  • Because he had crashed and burned.
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  • But god gave him a second chance at the burning bush,
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  • You know the story.
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  • He killed the egyptian, he went into exile for 40 years,
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  • The lord spoke to him and recommissioned him to service
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  • Again and gave to moses and ultimately to the jews,
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  • A new beginning.
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  • It comes down to this, when you've been changed,
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  • You wanna see others be changed as well.
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  • Let me turn that around.
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  • If you don't wanna see others changed,
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  • How much have you really been changed?
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  • Jesus said this in luke 7:47, "to whom much is forgiven
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  • That one loves the much more."
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  • I mean, if we can wrap our mind around what god has done for us,
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  • And how much he has forgiven us, he's taken all that sin
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  • And removed it from our lives and because of that,
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  • We should have an eagerness and an excitement and a passion
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  • To tell others of what god has done for us.
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  • And jesus also said over in luke 12:48,
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  • "from everyone who has been given much,
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  • Much will be demanded.
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  • And from the one who has been entrusted with much,
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  • Much more will be asked."
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  • Do you realize the great privileges that you have
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  • Right now as you sit there and hear this message?
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  • First of all, you live in the united states of america,
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  • A free country that's why so many people
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  • Wanna come to our nation.
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  • You know, we don't have to build walls to keep people in,
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  • We build walls in theory to keep people out--better not get
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  • Into that subject, but you understand what i'm saying,
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  • People wanna come here, it's a destination.
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  • And we have freedoms here that many other nations do not have,
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  • And then add to that we're in a church where the lord
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  • Is honored, we're led in worship by these gifted people that love
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  • The lord and we hear the word of god
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  • On a regular basis and we see people coming to christ.
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  • And so we look at all this and it's a privilege.
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  • And to whom much is forgiven, or excuse me much is given,
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  • Much is required.
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  • So god has given this to us, and with this knowledge,
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  • With these privileges, come responsibilities.
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  • Well, the jewish people, they were living this slaves
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  • Under the pharaoh.
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  • Now through moses, the answer to their prayers had finally come.
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  • The problem was, pharaoh was not cooperating.
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  • Instead of releasing the jews, he dug in his heels and said,
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  • "no, i won't release them," and even more,
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  • He effectively chose god off.
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  • He said in exodus 5:2, "who is the lord
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  • That i should obey his voice and let israel go?
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  • I don't know the lord nor will i let israel go."
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  • "oh yeah, you've got your god, well i'm god
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  • And i'll take god on."
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  • Wow, careful now, what you wish for 'cause if you get in a fight
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  • With god, you're gonna lose, just know that.
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  • If you're fighting with the lord, you're gonna lose.
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  • If you're running from the lord, you're gonna lose.
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  • As it has been said, your arms are too short to box with god.
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  • You remember old jacob that we looked at in the series,
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  • Got into a wrestling match with an angel who quite possibly
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  • Was jesus himself and he lost.
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  • The lord will maybe humors us from time to time like
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  • When i used to wrestle with my sons, and wrestle
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  • With my grandchildren, i let them win; i'm humoring them.
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  • They think they're really winning but they aren't,
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  • So you think you're prevailing.
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  • Listen, god will bring that wrestling match to a close
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  • And this is what was gonna happen to pharaoh.
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  • Careful what you wish for, you might get it.
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  • So god gave to pharaoh chance after chance,
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  • To release the jews.
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  • No plagues, no judgments.
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  • He said, "moses, just go in there and say,
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  • 'let my people go.'"
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  • But pharaoh rejected that.
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  • So the lord brought judgements, ten plagues in total upon egypt.
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  • They included lice, and flies, and bugs,
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  • And spiders, and frogs, and hail,
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  • And it just got worse and worse then the bible says,
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  • "pharaoh's heart got harder," pharaoh's heart got harder.
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  • Finally it says, "and the lord hardened pharaoh's heart,"
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  • Which if you recall means, the lord strengthened pharaoh
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  • In the decision he had already made.
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  • Now that pharaoh knows he's outgunned or outplagued,
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  • So he tries to get moses to compromise,
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  • He tries to deceive moses and he says,
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  • "all right moses, go ahead and go worship the lord
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  • Just don't go very far."
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  • Moses says, "no, we gotta go three days journey."
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  • "all right, all right, go worship the lord your god,
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  • But just leave your children."
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  • Moses says, "we're not leaving our kids,
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  • They're coming with us."
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  • "all right, all right, go worship the lord your god
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  • Just leave your animals," and moses says,
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  • "listen, not a hoof shall be left behind you get nothing,"
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  • And he made a clean break with the pharaoh just
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  • Like we need to make a clean break with the devil,
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  • If we're gonna follow jesus christ.
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  • But the pharaoh still was resisting.
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  • So the lord's gonna bring one severe judgment on him,
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  • The death of the firstborn.
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  • Now this might seem harsh, cruel,
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  • And even extreme on the part of god,
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  • But for all practical purposes
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  • That pharaoh decided his own fate.
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  • "how so?" you might ask.
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  • Well, moses warned pharaoh that he would be treated
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  • The same way he treated the jews.
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  • If not, he would reap what he'd sow.
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  • God said in exodus 4:22, "say this to the pharaoh,
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  • 'thus says the lord, israel is my son,
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  • So i say to you, let my son go that he may serve me.
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  • But if you refuse to let him go, indeed i will kill your son,
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  • Your firstborn.'"
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  • God was very direct.
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  • Look, this is my son, you let my son go, we're good.
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  • You don't let my son go, then i'm coming after your son.
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  • So he was deciding his own fate, he was gonna get a taste
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  • Of his own medicine.
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  • Jesus said, "with what measure or judgment you judge,
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  • You will be judged; and the measure you use,
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  • It will be measured back to you."
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  • So pharaoh drowned the jewish baby boys
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  • And now god was gonna drown pharaoh's army.
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  • See, a lot of times these things that we try to inflict on others
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  • Come right back on us.
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  • The bible tells a story of a wicked man named haman.
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  • He hatched a plot to have the jewish race exterminated,
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  • And unwitting artaxerxes went along with this plan,
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  • And artaxerxes was married of course to queen esther
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  • Who was a jew.
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  • She ended up pleading for the jewish people
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  • And they were spared.
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  • But haman had gallows built to hang mordecai his enemy,
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  • The uncle of queen esther.
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  • And as it turns out, haman hung on his own gallows.
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  • Careful, the trap you set for another may be the trap
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  • That brings you down.
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  • The thing that pharaoh was doing to the jews now would come
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  • Right back on him.
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  • Now god gives instruction for the celebration
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  • Of the first passover.
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  • The lord said, "go three days' journey into the land
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  • And you're gonna have passover,"
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  • And here's what it's all about.
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  • Exodus 12, starting in verse 1.
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  • "while the israelites are still in the land of egypt,
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  • The lord gave the following instructions to moses and aaron,
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  • 'from now on,'" the lord says,
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  • "'this month will be the first month of the year for you.
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  • Announce to the whole community of israel that on the tenth day
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  • Of this month each family must choose a lamb or a young goat
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  • For a sacrifice, one animal for each household.
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  • If a family is too small to eat a whole animal,
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  • Let them share with another family in the neighborhood.
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  • Divide the animal according to the size of each family
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  • And how much they can eat.
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  • The animal you select must be a one-year-old male,
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  • Either a sheep or a goat, and no defects.'"
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  • We'll stop there.
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  • So they were to offer to the lord a healthy young lamb
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  • Or goat, and then they were to sacrifice that animal
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  • And they were to take the blood of the animal and put it
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  • On their doorpost.
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  • So imagine a doorway right here.
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  • They were to take the blood from the lamb or the goat,
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  • Put the blood on the left side, put the blood
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  • On the right side, and put the blood on the top of the door.
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  • Now, what does that remind you of?
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  • Jesus hanging there on the cross,
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  • The crown of thorns pressed on his brow,
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  • Nails driven through his right hand and his left,
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  • And this is what passover was pointing to,
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  • It was pointing to jesus christ.
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  • And really the old testament is pointing to the new testament,
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  • It's one revelation from genesis to revelation.
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  • There's not an old testament god and a new testament god,
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  • It's one god and all of those old testament types and
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  • Sacrifices all pointed to jesus who would be the fulfillment
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  • Of them as the lamb of god who takes away the sin of the world.
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  • You know, people often misunderstand
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  • The ministry of christ.
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  • They think he was like, you know,
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  • The original hippie or something.
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  • He came to give flowers out and get everybody to sing "kumbaya"
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  • And give beautiful teachings,
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  • But then something went horribly wrong.
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  • No, he came to give, yes, the greatest teachings ever given.
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  • He came to perform miracles, sure,
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  • But really the real reason he came,
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  • Was to die for the sin of the world and be the lamb of god
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  • Who would bear our sin.
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  • And that is why scripture tells us that he is
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  • The lamb slain from the foundations of the world.
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  • Which means before there was a solar system,
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  • Before there was a planet called earth and a garden called eden
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  • And a couple known as adam and eve,
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  • A decision was made in the councils of eternity,
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  • That god himself would come to planet earth,
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  • And be born as a helpless little baby in a manger in bethlehem,
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  • Then he would live a perfect life and then he would die as
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  • Our substitute on the cross, and his precious blood
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  • Would be shed.
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  • So what does passover mean to us?
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  • Number one, the passover is a new beginning,
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  • If you're taking notes.
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  • The passover was for them and for us,
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  • A new beginning.
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  • God starts by making this a new beginning
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  • For the nation of israel.
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  • Verse 2, "this month will be the first month of the year
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  • For you."
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  • That'd be like us saying today, "we're starting the year
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  • Over again because it hasn't gone so well."
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  • Maybe some of you already look back and say,
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  • "can i do a do over of this year?"
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  • Now that's what god was saying, "we're starting the year over
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  • Right now, this is a new beginning,
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  • This is when it begins for you."
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  • Have you ever wished you could start all over again?
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  • Maybe in your marriage?
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  • Maybe in your relationship with your children or with friends?
  • 00:13:49.562 --> 00:13:53.332
  • Someone you've fallen out with?
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  • Well, in a way you can because 2 corinthians 5:17 says,
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  • "if any man be in christ he is a new creation,
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  • All things have passed away, all things become new."
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  • Or as the wuest translation puts it,
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  • Which is a translation from the original greek,
  • 00:14:08.113 --> 00:14:11.417
  • It goes as follows, "anyone who is in christ is a creation
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  • New in quality, the antiquated, out-of-date things
  • 00:14:14.854 --> 00:14:18.657
  • [which do not belong to the new life in christ]
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  • Have passed away.
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  • Behold all things have become fresh and new."
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  • You don't have to be crippled by your past anymore;
  • 00:14:26.165 --> 00:14:28.701
  • You can put it behind you.
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  • Announcer: "revelation: a book of promises" by greg laurie is
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  • Designed to help you see jesus as the centerpiece,
  • 00:14:38.410 --> 00:14:40.512
  • The star, and the focus of revelation.
  • 00:14:40.512 --> 00:14:43.816
  • With this eminently practical guide,
  • 00:14:43.816 --> 00:14:46.218
  • You can experience the blessing promised to those who read,
  • 00:14:46.218 --> 00:14:49.588
  • Hear, and keep the words of this prophetic book.
  • 00:14:49.588 --> 00:14:53.158
  • After all, bible prophecy is not given to inflate our brains,
  • 00:14:53.158 --> 00:14:56.996
  • But to enlarge our hearts.
  • 00:14:56.996 --> 00:14:59.131
  • Request "revelation" by greg laurie when you give today.
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  • Greg: i love how the lord just said, "it starts now,
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  • Doesn't matter what time of the year it is.
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  • It can all change because of the blood of the lamb."
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  • Number two, the lamb they were to kill
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  • Was to be the very best.
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  • It was a lamb that was to be chosen and carefully examined
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  • According to verse 3, "with no defects."
  • 00:15:24.757 --> 00:15:28.127
  • In other words, don't bring us sickly animal,
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  • Bring the finest, the strongest.
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  • Why?
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  • Because we should give our very best to god, right?
  • 00:15:34.199 --> 00:15:37.269
  • Jesus said, "seek first the kingdom of god and
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  • His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you."
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  • What you'll eat, what you'll drink,
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  • What you'll wear.
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  • Put god first in your marriage and you watch how it changes.
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  • Put god first in your finances and you watch
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  • How they'll change.
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  • Put god first in your relationships.
  • 00:15:53.385 --> 00:15:55.587
  • Put god first in your career.
  • 00:15:55.587 --> 00:15:57.623
  • Put him first, give the best, he gave his best to you.
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  • That's what the lord said, "bring your best."
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  • And they're bringing an animal that they have developed
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  • An affection for.
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  • He says, "bring your lamb," your lamb.
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  • So maybe it was even like a pet to them.
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  • You know, people are very attached to their pets.
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  • Everybody's walking around with animals everywhere now.
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  • You know, they take 'em on planes and take 'em
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  • Into restaurants and i know there are service animals
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  • That have been approved and people that need them,
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  • But i question some of the people carrying animals now,
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  • Really, is this a service animal?
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  • And you know, they're at the table eating,
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  • And they give the food to the dog and it's just--
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  • Really? is that sanitary?
  • 00:16:39.865 --> 00:16:43.035
  • But imagine taking your beloved pet, your dog,
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  • Your cats and offering it as a sacrifice
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  • That's what god was asking israel to do.
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  • "that's so cruel," but wait, why did god want 'em to do that?
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  • He wanted them to see the enormity of their sin
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  • And the blackness of it.
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  • And by offering something they love,
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  • That they had affection for, it showed sin has a cost,
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  • Sin is painful, sin is deadly.
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  • So he said, "you bring this and offer it to me now."
  • 00:17:10.396 --> 00:17:14.400
  • And so, is that not what christ was?
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  • He was the perfect sacrifice for each of us.
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  • "he knew no sin."
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  • He never sinned in any way, shape or form.
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  • In fact, we know that 2 corinthians 5:21 says that,
  • 00:17:26.211 --> 00:17:30.182
  • "he never sinned but he was the offering for our sin
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  • So that we could be made right with god through christ."
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  • It was a sinless for the sinful, the perfect for the imperfect,
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  • The flawless for the flawed, so we could all have
  • 00:17:40.492 --> 00:17:43.996
  • A new beginning.
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  • Absolutely amazing.
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  • Number three, if you're taking notes,
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  • The lamb had to be slain, don't miss this.
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  • The lamb had to be slain.
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  • It wasn't the life of the lamb that saved the people
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  • From judgment, it was the death of it.
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  • Hebrews 9:22 says, "without the shedding of blood,
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  • There is no forgiveness of sin."
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  • So you have to have the cross.
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  • It's not the life of jesus; it's a life of jesus; it's the death
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  • Of jesus, it's the resurrection of jesus
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  • That gives us access to the father.
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  • That's why christ said in matthew 26,
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  • "this is my blood given in the new covenant
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  • For the forgiveness of sin."
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  • We talk a lot about the blood, we sing about the blood,
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  • And so we should.
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  • We sing, "would you be free from the burden of sin?
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  • There's power in the blood, power in the blood."
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  • Would you for--or evil if victory went,
  • 00:18:37.382 --> 00:18:40.385
  • "there's wonder working power in the blood,
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  • There's power, power, power in the blood?"
  • 00:18:42.621 --> 00:18:45.090
  • And i also love that song, "nothing but the blood of jesus.
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  • What can wash away our sin?
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  • Nothing but the blood of jesus."
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  • And another song, "the blood will never lose its power."
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  • The next point, the blood had to be applied.
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  • Now this is a big one, don't miss it,
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  • The blood had to be applied so yes,
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  • The lamb had to be slain but you had to apply the blood.
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  • If that lamb was killed and you did not take that blood
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  • And put it on your doorway, the judgment of god,
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  • The angel of death, that judgment would come upon you.
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  • Even if you slew the lamb, even if you spilled the blood,
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  • You still had to apply the blood,
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  • Otherwise you would not have your home passed over.
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  • And in the same way we too need to apply the blood.
  • 00:19:28.300 --> 00:19:33.305
  • You say, "well, what does that mean to apply the blood?"
  • 00:19:33.305 --> 00:19:35.908
  • Okay, let's get specific now.
  • 00:19:35.908 --> 00:19:38.911
  • Let's say that you've committed a sin.
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  • Quick poll, how many of you have ever committed a sin?
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  • Okay, good kids, i'm talking to you.
  • 00:19:43.515 --> 00:19:46.652
  • You've committed a sin, let's say it was years ago.
  • 00:19:46.652 --> 00:19:51.390
  • And it's possible that that sin is haunting you today.
  • 00:19:51.390 --> 00:19:54.860
  • It may have been a decade ago, two decades ago, even longer.
  • 00:19:54.860 --> 00:19:58.664
  • In fact, the enormity of that sin,
  • 00:19:58.664 --> 00:20:01.967
  • Has come on you like a ton of bricks and you've realized
  • 00:20:01.967 --> 00:20:05.137
  • How bad it was even more than you realized right
  • 00:20:05.137 --> 00:20:08.273
  • After you had committed it and it haunts you now.
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  • It wakes you up at night, it troubles you,
  • 00:20:11.476 --> 00:20:14.680
  • You walk around with a guilty conscience,
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  • And you don't know how to get rid of that sin.
  • 00:20:16.915 --> 00:20:20.018
  • Okay, you need to apply the blood.
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  • You say, "well greg, i'm trying to forgive myself."
  • 00:20:23.689 --> 00:20:26.658
  • What are you talking about?
  • 00:20:26.658 --> 00:20:28.527
  • The bible never tells you to forgive yourself,
  • 00:20:28.527 --> 00:20:31.363
  • You can't forgive yourself.
  • 00:20:31.363 --> 00:20:33.398
  • No, you don't need to forgive yourself,
  • 00:20:33.398 --> 00:20:35.400
  • You need to understand the power of the blood,
  • 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:38.337
  • And what god has done when he through christ forgave you.
  • 00:20:38.337 --> 00:20:42.007
  • You need to apply the blood.
  • 00:20:42.007 --> 00:20:43.909
  • You say, "but what does that mean?"
  • 00:20:43.909 --> 00:20:45.310
  • 1 john 1:7 says that "but if we walk in the light
  • 00:20:45.310 --> 00:20:47.679
  • As he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another,
  • 00:20:47.679 --> 00:20:50.616
  • And the blood of jesus christ his son cleanses us
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  • From all sin."
  • 00:20:53.852 --> 00:20:55.621
  • Did you hear that?
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  • It cleanses you from all sin.
  • 00:20:57.055 --> 00:20:59.491
  • Not just some sin, not just a big,
  • 00:20:59.491 --> 00:21:02.427
  • Giant, gnarly sins, all sins, he'll forgive you.
  • 00:21:02.427 --> 00:21:07.766
  • But what do you need to do?
  • 00:21:07.766 --> 00:21:09.268
  • If you will confess your sin.
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  • What does that mean?
  • 00:21:11.937 --> 00:21:13.272
  • The word "confess" literally means to agree with god.
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  • So let's say we went outta the church
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  • And there was a red car parked there.
  • 00:21:19.411 --> 00:21:21.413
  • I said, "look, there's a red car."
  • 00:21:21.413 --> 00:21:23.248
  • And you said, "yes, that is a red car."
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  • We agree, you're confessing with me,
  • 00:21:25.150 --> 00:21:27.452
  • We see it the same way but if i say,
  • 00:21:27.452 --> 00:21:29.454
  • "look at that red car" and you say,
  • 00:21:29.454 --> 00:21:30.856
  • "no, that's a blue truck."
  • 00:21:30.856 --> 00:21:32.791
  • No, you're in disagreement with me, you see.
  • 00:21:32.791 --> 00:21:36.261
  • To confess means, you agree with me.
  • 00:21:36.261 --> 00:21:38.697
  • So when god says that we will confess our sin,
  • 00:21:38.697 --> 00:21:41.099
  • He's saying, "i want you to see sin the way i see sin.
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  • And i don't want you to marginalize it, or minimize it,
  • 00:21:45.337 --> 00:21:50.075
  • Or rationalize it, i want you to call it what it is,"
  • 00:21:50.075 --> 00:21:53.679
  • 'cause we have new words for sins so we don't feel as bad.
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  • Instead of even saying we sin we'll say,
  • 00:21:57.749 --> 00:21:59.318
  • "well i'm not perfect, so i made a mistake."
  • 00:21:59.318 --> 00:22:02.921
  • Are you perfect?
  • 00:22:02.921 --> 00:22:04.256
  • "wait, there's a difference between a mistake and a sin."
  • 00:22:04.256 --> 00:22:07.192
  • A dictionary definition of mistake is an error or fault
  • 00:22:07.192 --> 00:22:10.295
  • Resulting from defective judgment,
  • 00:22:10.295 --> 00:22:13.065
  • Deficient knowledge or carelessness;
  • 00:22:13.065 --> 00:22:15.734
  • A misconception or a misunderstanding.
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  • I was supposed to turn right on that street, and i turned left,
  • 00:22:18.470 --> 00:22:21.306
  • It was a mistake, i wasn't paying attention,
  • 00:22:21.306 --> 00:22:24.710
  • It wasn't deliberate but it happened; it was a mistake.
  • 00:22:24.710 --> 00:22:27.913
  • A sin is deliberate.
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  • It's something i do at will.
  • 00:22:29.815 --> 00:22:32.984
  • And so, i need to call it what it is.
  • 00:22:32.984 --> 00:22:34.686
  • If i've been guilty of sexual sin, call it that.
  • 00:22:34.686 --> 00:22:38.990
  • Where did this phrase moral failure come from?
  • 00:22:38.990 --> 00:22:42.861
  • "well, there's been a moral failure."
  • 00:22:42.861 --> 00:22:44.896
  • What is that like?
  • 00:22:44.896 --> 00:22:46.231
  • What is that?
  • 00:22:46.231 --> 00:22:47.699
  • You know, if you committed adultery, say,
  • 00:22:47.699 --> 00:22:49.501
  • "i committed the sin of adultery or it was a sin
  • 00:22:49.501 --> 00:22:51.636
  • Of fornication" or nowadays when we lie, we don't say i lie,
  • 00:22:51.636 --> 00:22:55.907
  • We say, "well, i misspoke."
  • 00:22:55.907 --> 00:22:58.076
  • Really? that's it.
  • 00:22:58.076 --> 00:22:59.411
  • "i misspoke.
  • 00:22:59.411 --> 00:23:00.746
  • Well actually, i offered you alternative facts."
  • 00:23:00.746 --> 00:23:04.583
  • "alternative facts?"
  • 00:23:04.583 --> 00:23:06.485
  • Now, maybe you didn't understand something,
  • 00:23:06.485 --> 00:23:08.653
  • And you said something, but then you found out that
  • 00:23:08.653 --> 00:23:11.423
  • What you said was not accurate so you say, "excuse me,
  • 00:23:11.423 --> 00:23:14.359
  • I said something yesterday but i researched it and found out
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  • I wasn't accurate in all my facts, let me restate it."
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  • Okay, that's one thing, but a lie's another thing.
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  • I know it's true but i'm gonna tell you this lie instead,
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  • Call a lie a lie, call a sin, a sin and then, listen,
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  • Apply the blood.
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  • So you come and say, "lord, i've committed this sin,
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  • I'm sorry for this sin, i confess this sin,
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  • I repent of this sin, and i accept your forgiveness because
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  • Of the blood of jesus that was shed," and then you drop it,
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  • You drop it, stop dredging it up,
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  • Stop bringing it up.
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  • We should not choose to remember what god has chosen to forget.
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  • Now, that doesn't mean there still may not be
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  • Some ramifications.
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  • I mean, if you go out and rob a bank and you're arrested,
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  • You could say to the officer,
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  • "well, man, it's under the blood."
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  • And they'll say, "well, you're under arrest and you're going
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  • To jail but you can pray on the way over."
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  • So god will forgive you; there may be some ramifications
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  • Depending on the sin, but it's under the blood
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  • And it is forgiven.
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  • Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart
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  • And you have seen your need for jesus christ.
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  • Jesus christ is the son of god, who came from heaven
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  • To this earth.
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  • He was born in a manger, he died in a cross,
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  • He rose again from the dead.
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  • Why?
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  • Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
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  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion,
  • 00:24:52.257 --> 00:24:54.392
  • I don't wanna be a religious person i don't think you wanna
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  • Be one either, i'm talking about relationship with god.
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  • Jesus who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
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  • And he knocks and he says, "if you'll hear his voice,
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  • And open the door, he will come in."
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  • Question, have you asked jesus christ to come and live
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  • Inside of you?
  • 00:25:14.179 --> 00:25:15.580
  • You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
  • 00:25:15.580 --> 00:25:17.482
  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle
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  • Of the night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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  • I'm sure you would.
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  • And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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  • You will know.
  • 00:25:27.092 --> 00:25:28.493
  • And if you don't know, maybe he has not come in yet.
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  • He's just a prayer away.
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  • All you need to do is say,
  • 00:25:33.932 --> 00:25:35.400
  • "jesus, i want this relationship with you,
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  • I want you to forgive me of my sin,
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  • I want to go to heaven when i die."
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  • Would you like to do that?
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  • Would you like christ to come into your life?
  • 00:25:43.942 --> 00:25:46.278
  • If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me.
  • 00:25:46.278 --> 00:25:49.447
  • You can pray it out loud, or you can pray it
  • 00:25:49.447 --> 00:25:51.816
  • In the quietness of your heart.
  • 00:25:51.816 --> 00:25:54.019
  • But this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ
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  • To be your savior and lord, pray this with me now.
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  • "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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  • But i know that you're the savior,
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  • Who died on the cross for my sin and rose again from the dead,
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  • Now come into my life.
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  • I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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  • Thank you, for hearing this prayer and answering
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  • This prayer, in jesus's name, amen."
  • 00:26:19.811 --> 00:26:23.582
  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If so, i want you to know in the authority of scripture
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  • That christ himself has come to live inside of you,
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  • You in this commitment you've just made to follow jesus.
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  • And let me be the first to say to you,
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  • Congratulations, and welcome to the family of god.
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