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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Revive Us Again | July 21, 2025
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- Greg laurie: it's so easy to
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- Say, "well, the church should do this and other
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- Christians should do that."
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- Don't worry about the church.
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- Don't worry about other christians.
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- Start with you.
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- Are you living a passionate relationship with christ
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- Right now?
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- If not, return to the lord again.
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- Recommit yourself to the lord again.
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- ♪ this is the day ♪
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- ♪ the day when life begins ♪
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- ♪ this is the day ♪
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- ♪ the day when life begins ♪♪
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- Greg: america is at a crossroads right now.
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- It seems in many ways that our nation is unraveling before our
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- Very eyes.
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- Crime is up, drug use is up, hopelessness is up, and i think
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- The primary reason for this is because we have rejected what
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- God says in his word.
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- The bible says be careful because if you sow the wind,
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- You'll reap the whirlwind.
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- We're in a time where many are wanting to redefine what god has
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- Already defined and we're seeing the fallout as a result.
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- And now the headlines of the news sites are alarming because
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- We have world leaders talking about a potential nuclear
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- Armageddon, even using the word armageddon.
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- And, you know, any time a world leader uses
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- The word armageddon, we should pay attention.
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- And in many ways the times we're living in now reminds me a lot
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- Of the late '60s and the early '70s.
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- Drug use is up today.
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- Drug use was just really exploding into the culture
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- Back then.
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- Back in those days, we were taking drugs because we were on
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- A search, trying to find truth or something, at least.
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- Today, many take drugs just to escape their pain.
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- Ironically, marijuana and lsd use is up dramatically, the same
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- Drugs we were using back then.
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- In fact, i read recently more americans are smoking pot than
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- Cigarettes right now.
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- This has led to a full-blown opioid epidemic.
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- There's been a 300% increase in fentanyl deaths: 300 people a
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- Day die from fentanyl.
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- It's crazy.
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- This young generation today is looking for answers.
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- Self-harm is up 334%.
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- Overdoses are up 119%.
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- Anxiety and depression is up.
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- The us suicide rate has increased dramatically since the
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- Year 2000, and it's tripled for young girls.
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- Maybe that's why one expert dubbed generation z, "the
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- Hopeless generation."
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- Well, listen, i'm not gonna sit back and just watch this happen.
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- We've got to do something.
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- California, this is your wake-up call.
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- America, this is your wake-up call.
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- It's time to pray.
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- So you hear words like spiritual awakening, revival,
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- Jesus revolution.
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- You might wonder, what does that even mean?
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- Well, let's just take the word "revival" and demystify it a
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- Bit--a little bit.
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- It just means to restore, to restore to original condition.
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- So when i say a christian should be revived, what i'm really
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- Saying is a christian should just be, well, a christian.
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- A real christian.
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- See, there's a lot of fake christians out there right now.
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- There's a lot of posers, people that pretend to be believers but
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- Are not at all.
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- The apostle paul asked this questions, are you really
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- Christians or are you just pretending to be christians when
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- You really aren't at all?
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- Do you pass the test?
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- A lot of us are faking, but listen, you can fool all of the
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- People some of the time, you can fool some of the people all of
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- The time, but you can't fool god any of the time, right?
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- He knows.
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- He knows and you know.
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- We need a revival.
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- We need to be real christians.
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- The early church turned their world upside down.
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- Today, i fear the world is turning the church upside down.
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- It's time for us to let our light so shine for jesus christ
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- And live this life, earning us the right to share the gospel
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- With others, right?
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- We need a revival.
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- A great evangelist named billy sunday once said, "they tell me
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- A revival is only temporary, but so is a bath, and it does
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- You good."
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- Yeah, we could use that bath right now.
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- Revival is when god gets so sick and tired of being
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- Misrepresented, he shows up himself.
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- So i was talking to chuck smith once, who is regarded by most as
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- The father of the jesus movement.
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- And i asked him, "chuck, do you think we'll ever see another
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- Jesus revolution, another jesus movement?"
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- His response was, "greg, i don't know if we're desperate
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- Enough yet."
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- Well, some time has passed since then, and i think we may be
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- Desperate enough again.
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- The prophet habakkuk understood this when he prayed this prayer:
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- "i've heard all that you've done, lord.
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- I'm filled with awe by the amazing things you've done.
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- In this time of deep need, revive your work as you did in
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- Days gone by."
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- So some of you are young and you're saying, "wow, that must
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- Have been a cool time to be in the middle of a
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- Spiritual awakening."
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- Pray that god will do it in your time.
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- Listen, my generation, the boomers, our day is coming to
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- A close.
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- The boomers have done their thing.
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- Now it's time for the zoomers, okay?
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- It's time for you to have your own spiritual awakening.
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- My generation, the boomers, we've gone from acid rock to
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- Acid reflux.
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- Bands from our era are still touring.
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- The who, they're still out there playing in stadiums, but instead
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- Of singing, "talking about my generation," now they're
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- Singing, "talking about my medication."
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- See, things have changed.
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- So it's your turn now.
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- We're praying that your generation will have your own
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- Spiritual awakening.
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- You know, when we made this film, "jesus revolution," we did
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- Not make that to have a peace sign nostalgia fest of a bunch
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- Of old baby boomers.
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- Telling the story of a revival can inspire another generation
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- To pray for their own.
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- The fame of revival spreads the flame of revival.
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- So we're saying, lord, do it again.
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- Okay, now i'm gonna show you a scene from the "jesus
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- Revolution" film.
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- How many of you wanna see a scene from the film, okay?
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- [congregation cheering]
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- This is a great scene.
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- It's a great scene based on a true story.
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- The whole youth culture is just unraveling, and chuck's an older
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- Guy and he doesn't know what's going on.
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- He doesn't see any hope for this generation, but his wife kay has
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- A heart for these young kids, and his daughter jan tells her
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- Dad, "you should be more open to reaching them.
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- You've never even met a hippie," and chuck says, "well, if god
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- Brings me a hippie, i'll talk to him."
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- So jan goes out and finds this hippie evangelist named lonnie
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- Frisbee, and she brought him to her dad, and this is what
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- Happened next.
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- Look at the screen.
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- Chuck smith: tell me about yourself, lonnie.
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- And your umm...people.
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- Lonnie frisbee: my people.
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- I like the sound of that.
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- You know, it reminds me of the words of jesus.
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- "to what, then, can i compare the people of this generation?
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- What are they like?"
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- I was up in san francisco for a long time.
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- Living in haight-ashbury.
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- On the streets. all over.
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- Man, we did everything and everyone.
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- But that was the point.
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- You see, the drugs, it's a quest.
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- Chuck: for what?
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- Lonnie: for god.
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- How can you not see that?
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- There is an entire generation right now searching for god.
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- Man, we thought acid was gonna save the world.
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- Thank you.
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- Chuck: thanks, mom. lonnie: but that was a lie.
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- As much of a lie as what we were rebelling against.
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- Chuck: and what brought you to that realization?
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- Lonnie: i kept searching and searching.
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- I just finally got to the end of it and there was still a void.
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- And my people?
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- Well, they're a desperate bunch.
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- And desperation, man, there's power in that word.
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- What would it take for you, chuck smith, to be desperate?
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- Janette tells me you're a pastor.
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- Chuck: yes, currently.
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- Lonnie: i know we must seem pretty strange, but if you look
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- A little deeper, if you look with love, you'll see a bunch of
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- Kids that are searching for all the right things, just in all
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- The wrong places.
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- So to answer your question, how do i describe my people?
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- They're sheep without a shepherd, chasing hard
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- After lies.
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- And the trouble is, your people reject them.
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- So i ask you, pastor, how can they believe in the one of whom
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- They have not heard?
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- We can only walk through doors open to us.
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- And your church, well, that's a door that's shut.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: powerful.
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- Pastor chuck smith had the original vision to do these
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- Harvest crusades over 30 years ago.
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- He stood on this platform for many years.
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- Many of you remember him, but he had this vision, and to his
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- Credit, chuck opened the door, he let the hippies in, and when
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- Chuck met lonnie, it was like nitro met glycerin.
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- And the result was explosive and the spiritual awakening broke
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- Out, and we pray that god will do it again.
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- So we want to see a spiritual revival.
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- What should we do?
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- 2 chronicles 7:14 actually lays out what we ought to do if we
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- Wanna see this spiritual awakening.
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- God says, "if my people, which are called by my name, will
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- Humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their
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- Wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven and forgive their
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- Sin and heal their land."
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- What a powerful verse that is.
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- We want god to heal our land.
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- America is filled with division.
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- America is filled with conflict.
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- Some even think we could have another civil war.
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- God help us, lord, heal our land.
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- But notice where god points his finger.
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- He doesn't point his finger at the white house.
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- He points his finger at his house, at your house, at
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- My house.
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- He says, "if my people, which are called by my name, will
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- Humble themselves and pray."
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- He's talking to us who are believers.
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- He's saying, you guys, it starts with you.
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- "humble yourself from praying, seek my face, and turn from your
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- Wicked ways."
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- Do you have any wicked ways you need to turn from right now?
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- You say you're a christian, but yet you're living in sin.
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- You're doing things the bible says you should not do.
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- "hey, i'm a christian, but i'm partying and getting drunk on
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- The weekends.
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- Oh, i'm a christian, but i'm doing drugs.
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- I'm a christian but i'm sleeping with my boyfriend or my
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- Girlfriend or being unfaithful with my spouse.
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- Oh, i'm a christian, but i'm lying and ripping people off."
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- Hey, again, check up on yourself.
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- Are you really a christian or are you just pretending to be
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- When you aren't one at all?
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- It's time to repent, to repent of your sin.
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- God says, i want to send an awakening, and we point our
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- Finger at hollywood, we point our finger at washington, we
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- Point our finger at the culture.
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- God points his finger at us and says, "you guys, my people, turn
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- From your wicked ways and call out to me."
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- Pray with passion.
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- Pray aggressively.
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- Don't take no for an answer.
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- Lord, send a revival, but listen, revival, awakening,
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- Starts with you.
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- Revival or revolution, to use that word, just means to come
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- Back around again, returning to what we might call one's
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- First love.
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- Here's what jesus says in revelation chapter 2 to a church
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- That was doing just that, he says, "you've left your
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- First love.
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- Remember from where you have fallen, repent and do the
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- First works."
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- Listen, if you want to get right with god, as one of his
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- Followers, there's three things you need to do.
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- I call them the three r's of getting right with god.
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- Number one, remember.
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- Mark that point in time where maybe your faith was stronger.
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- Mark that point in time when you were walking
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- Closely with the lord.
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- Some of you, looking at these scenes from this film, are
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- Having a flashback.
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- You say, "i was one of those jesus people.
- 00:14:42.858 --> 00:14:46.061
- I remember."
- 00:14:46.061 --> 00:14:48.364
- "clear," buh-boom, "i'm still here."
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- Okay, that's nice.
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- I'm glad you were around back then, but how are you doing with
- 00:14:53.102 --> 00:14:54.870
- The lord now?
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- Remember.
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- Number two, if it's not the way it used to be, repent.
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- All the word "repent" means is to change your direction.
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- It's a military term.
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- It means to do an about-face.
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- You just turn around like that, right?
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- So you turn back, remember, repent, and then repeat.
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- Repeat, do those first things again.
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- As the apostle paul says, "get back, get back, get back to
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- Where you once belonged."
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- Oh, that's paul mccartney, not the apostle paul, but
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- I knew it was a paul.
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- That was a joke, not a very funny one, apparently.
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- All the old people went, "pretty good."
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- Kids are like, "who?"
- 00:15:33.142 --> 00:15:35.511
- Kids, there was once a band called the beatles, okay?
- 00:15:35.511 --> 00:15:37.913
- I'm just saying.
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- You're screaming for the beatles.
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- I'm glad to hear that.
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- Beatlemania is still alive, apparently.
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- No, but we need to let it start in our heart.
- 00:15:46.789 --> 00:15:49.224
- It's so easy to say, "well, the church should do this and other
- 00:15:49.224 --> 00:15:52.628
- Christians should do that."
- 00:15:52.628 --> 00:15:53.963
- Don't worry about the church.
- 00:15:53.963 --> 00:15:55.331
- Don't worry about other christians.
- 00:15:55.331 --> 00:15:56.899
- Start with you.
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- Are you living a passionate relationship with christ
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- Right now?
- 00:16:03.005 --> 00:16:04.373
- If not, return to the lord again.
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- Recommit yourself to the lord again.
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- Greg: hey everybody, greg laurie with some thoughts
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- About how people see us as christians.
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- Christians should be known for their love, for their patience,
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- For their kindness.
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- They should not be known as people who are mean or
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- Short-tempered or judgmental.
- 00:16:31.100 --> 00:16:34.803
- You know, it was said of the apostles in the book of acts the
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- Leaders could tell, and these are secular leaders,
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- That they had been with jesus, speaking of peter and john.
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- They could see they had been with jesus.
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- I love that.
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- Do you think someone can tell you've been with jesus?
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- You say, "what does that even mean?"
- 00:16:51.854 --> 00:16:53.222
- Well, you're with jesus when you open his word.
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- He says, "lo in the volume of the book i come."
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- You spend time with jesus when you pray.
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- And so people can see it reflected.
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- Or another way to put it, when you leave church.
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- I think after church when a christian family or a christian
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- Goes into a restaurant the server should be able to tell
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- The difference between the believer and the non-believer.
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- They could say, "oh, these are christians.
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- Look at how polite they are, how patient they are, how friendly
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- They are, how generous they are with their tips.
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- These are christians.
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- They must have come from church.
- 00:17:27.589 --> 00:17:29.191
- Oh, these other people clearly are not."
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- People should be able to tell you've been with jesus by the
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- Way that you live, and that earned you the right to
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- Verbalize it and articulate your faith.
- 00:17:38.500 --> 00:17:41.236
- As i've said so many times, if you were arrested for being
- 00:17:41.236 --> 00:17:44.940
- A christian would there be enough evidence to convict you?
- 00:17:44.940 --> 00:17:48.610
- By evidence i don't mean by how big of a bible you have
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- Or how many bumper stickers you have in your car that talk
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- About your faith.
- 00:17:54.616 --> 00:17:56.318
- By the way, 2 is good, 3 is kind of pushing it, but if you have
- 00:17:56.318 --> 00:17:59.288
- Like 15 stickers on your car that's too much.
- 00:17:59.288 --> 00:18:02.324
- Just like tone it down a bit. okay?
- 00:18:02.324 --> 00:18:04.626
- People are not going to know you're a christian
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- By your bumper stickers.
- 00:18:06.595 --> 00:18:08.497
- They're going to know you're a christian by your love.
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- So let's make sure we have genuine evidence that shows
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- We're a christian before we even start talking about jesus.
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- Male announcer: "revelation: a book of promises,"
- 00:18:22.444 --> 00:18:24.713
- By greg laurie.
- 00:18:24.713 --> 00:18:26.115
- Why study revelation?
- 00:18:26.115 --> 00:18:27.749
- The word "revelation" means unveiling.
- 00:18:27.749 --> 00:18:30.486
- God's desire is to reveal, not conceal.
- 00:18:30.486 --> 00:18:34.056
- And this book unveils pictures of the spirit world,
- 00:18:34.056 --> 00:18:36.892
- Great cataclysmic events in store for the planet,
- 00:18:36.892 --> 00:18:39.862
- And the coming antichrist.
- 00:18:39.862 --> 00:18:42.064
- But as greg laurie explains, the primary objective
- 00:18:42.064 --> 00:18:44.733
- Of this book isn't to reveal the antichrist.
- 00:18:44.733 --> 00:18:47.636
- It's to reveal jesus christ and his soon coming.
- 00:18:47.636 --> 00:18:51.306
- "revelation: a book of promises" is designed to help you see
- 00:18:51.306 --> 00:18:54.810
- Jesus as the centerpiece, the star,
- 00:18:54.810 --> 00:18:57.646
- And the focus of revelation.
- 00:18:57.646 --> 00:18:59.982
- With this eminently practical guide, you can experience the
- 00:18:59.982 --> 00:19:03.318
- Blessing promised to those who read, hear, and keep the words
- 00:19:03.318 --> 00:19:07.389
- Of this prophetic book.
- 00:19:07.389 --> 00:19:09.158
- After all, bible prophecy is not given to inflate our brains,
- 00:19:09.158 --> 00:19:12.961
- But to enlarge our hearts.
- 00:19:12.961 --> 00:19:15.898
- Request "revelation" by greg laurie
- 00:19:15.898 --> 00:19:18.066
- When you give today.
- 00:19:18.066 --> 00:19:19.434
- Greg: so let me answer the question that is on the minds of
- 00:19:22.771 --> 00:19:26.708
- Some, which is simply this, "where are you going to
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- Go when you die?"
- 00:19:30.579 --> 00:19:33.115
- Many of us would say, "well, heaven."
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- Are you sure of that?
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- I mean, are you absolutely certain you will go to heaven
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- When you die?
- 00:19:39.521 --> 00:19:40.856
- You say, "well, i'm hoping that, you know, if i live a good life,
- 00:19:40.856 --> 00:19:42.858
- The good lord will let me in."
- 00:19:42.858 --> 00:19:44.626
- But hold on, you don't wanna risk this.
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- You wanna know for sure about this.
- 00:19:47.229 --> 00:19:49.798
- You wanna be ready.
- 00:19:49.798 --> 00:19:51.366
- You need to know the way.
- 00:19:51.366 --> 00:19:53.035
- Jesus said, "i am the way, the truth and the life and no man
- 00:19:53.035 --> 00:19:56.305
- Comes to the father but by me."
- 00:19:56.305 --> 00:19:59.074
- There's one way to heaven and it's through jesus christ.
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- God has dropped one lifeline.
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- God has dropped one lifeline to heaven.
- 00:20:08.483 --> 00:20:11.153
- You don't just make up the rules as you go.
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- You wouldn't even use the word "heaven" if you had not heard it
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- From the bible.
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- It's a bible word.
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- It's a real place for real people to do real things.
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- How do you get to heaven?
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- Living a good life?
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- No, that's not gonna work.
- 00:20:26.902 --> 00:20:28.303
- Heard about a man that died and went to the pearly gates and
- 00:20:28.303 --> 00:20:31.106
- Peter met him, and then peter said, "okay, buddy, this is how
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- You get into heaven.
- 00:20:34.509 --> 00:20:35.844
- It takes 1000 points."
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- This is a true story.
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- Not really.
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- Okay, "takes 1000 points to get in.
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- So tell me all the good things you've done in your life, and
- 00:20:44.386 --> 00:20:47.289
- I'll give you points for everything good you've done."
- 00:20:47.289 --> 00:20:50.492
- The man said, "oh, okay, well, listen, i've been married to the
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- Same woman for 50 years.
- 00:20:53.795 --> 00:20:56.331
- I've never cheated on her.
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- I've never even had an impure thought about another woman."
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- Peter said, "good, that's worth three points."
- 00:21:01.103 --> 00:21:03.905
- "wait, three points?
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- How many do i need to get into heaven?"
- 00:21:05.907 --> 00:21:07.442
- Peter says, "you need 1000."
- 00:21:07.442 --> 00:21:09.111
- "oh, wow, okay, wait."
- 00:21:09.111 --> 00:21:10.979
- This man says, "i went to church every sunday and i supported the
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- Church with my tithes."
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- Peter said, "that's good. that's worth one point."
- 00:21:16.184 --> 00:21:18.220
- "one point?"
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- The guy says, "i set up a soup kitchen and opened up a shelter
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- For homeless people."
- 00:21:23.525 --> 00:21:24.860
- "that's good," peter said.
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- "that's worth two points."
- 00:21:26.261 --> 00:21:27.629
- "two points?
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- At this rate, the only way i'm going to get into heaven is by
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- The grace of god."
- 00:21:30.899 --> 00:21:32.267
- Peter said, "that's 1000 points.
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- Come on in," see?
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- You think you're living a good life.
- 00:21:41.009 --> 00:21:42.811
- I hate to break this to you, it's not good enough because the
- 00:21:42.811 --> 00:21:46.515
- Bible says we all fall short of the glory of god.
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- Listen to this: heaven is not for good people.
- 00:21:49.451 --> 00:21:52.521
- Heaven is for forgiven people.
- 00:21:52.521 --> 00:21:55.857
- Now let me say something that might surprise you.
- 00:21:55.857 --> 00:21:58.293
- Listen to this.
- 00:21:58.293 --> 00:21:59.661
- There's gonna be some bad people in heaven and there's gonna be
- 00:21:59.661 --> 00:22:04.700
- Some, quote, "good people" in hell.
- 00:22:04.700 --> 00:22:08.570
- "i don't get that at all."
- 00:22:08.570 --> 00:22:09.938
- Okay, let me explain.
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- There'll be some bad people in heaven.
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- How do i get to heaven?
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- By turning from my sin and putting my faith in christ, who
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- Died for me on the cross.
- 00:22:19.848 --> 00:22:21.616
- Think about that man who was crucified next to jesus.
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- We call him the thief on the cross, but he was probably
- 00:22:25.887 --> 00:22:28.290
- Guiltier--or guilty of a far worse crime than stealing,
- 00:22:28.290 --> 00:22:33.428
- Probably was a murderer, an insurrectionist.
- 00:22:33.428 --> 00:22:36.264
- But yet he turned to jesus and said, "lord, remember me when
- 00:22:36.264 --> 00:22:39.468
- You come into your kingdom," and jesus said, "truly, truly, i
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- Say to you today you will be with me in paradise."
- 00:22:43.438 --> 00:22:47.409
- Wow, talk about being at the right place at the right time.
- 00:22:47.409 --> 00:22:52.814
- That man was an evil man.
- 00:22:52.814 --> 00:22:54.149
- He was a sinful man, but he said, "lord, remember me," and
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- Jesus forgave him.
- 00:22:57.319 --> 00:22:58.687
- So in a sense, a bad person is in heaven.
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- But then there'll be some good people in hell and by that i
- 00:23:01.957 --> 00:23:04.559
- Mean people that trusted in their religion, people that
- 00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:08.163
- Trusted in their good works.
- 00:23:08.163 --> 00:23:09.865
- The bible says it's not by works that god saves us, but it's by
- 00:23:09.865 --> 00:23:14.703
- His grace.
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- That's how we get to heaven.
- 00:23:16.438 --> 00:23:18.273
- So how can you know for certain you'll go to heaven when
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- You die?
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- If you haven't heard anything else i've said tonight, listen
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- To me now because i'm almost done.
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- Number one, you must realize you're a sinner.
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- We've all sinned.
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- We've all fallen short of god's glory.
- 00:23:31.887 --> 00:23:34.489
- See, god has given us a standard of perfection.
- 00:23:34.489 --> 00:23:37.259
- None of us measures up.
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- Now, granted, some of us do better than others, but we still
- 00:23:38.894 --> 00:23:42.497
- Fall short.
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- So understand you're a sinner, and that's why you need
- 00:23:43.899 --> 00:23:46.168
- A savior, and that's why jesus came.
- 00:23:46.168 --> 00:23:49.438
- Jesus did not just come to this earth to give amazing teachings,
- 00:23:49.438 --> 00:23:52.741
- Though they are the most amazing ever given.
- 00:23:52.741 --> 00:23:55.777
- He didn't just come to this planet to work miracles.
- 00:23:55.777 --> 00:23:59.147
- He came to this planet with the express purpose of going to the
- 00:23:59.147 --> 00:24:02.818
- Cross and dying for the sin of the world, and that is why jesus
- 00:24:02.818 --> 00:24:06.922
- Christ and christ alone is qualified to bridge the gap
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- Between a holy god and sinful humanity.
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- With one hand he took hold of that holy god, with the other
- 00:24:15.630 --> 00:24:19.000
- Hand he took hold of sinful humanity, and nails were driven
- 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.804
- Through those hands and through those feet, and he died.
- 00:24:22.804 --> 00:24:25.774
- The bible says christ died for your sins, why?
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- Because he loves you.
- 00:24:30.178 --> 00:24:32.447
- "for god so loved the world he gave his only begotten son, and
- 00:24:32.447 --> 00:24:36.818
- Whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have
- 00:24:36.818 --> 00:24:39.821
- Everlasting life."
- 00:24:39.821 --> 00:24:42.624
- I love the way the apostle paul personalized it when he said,
- 00:24:42.624 --> 00:24:46.094
- "he loved me and he gave himself for me."
- 00:24:46.094 --> 00:24:50.131
- Recognize christ died on that cross for your sin.
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- Then you must turn from that sin and repent of the sin.
- 00:24:52.667 --> 00:24:56.738
- The bible says god has commanded people everywhere to repent.
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- So you say, "lord, i don't wanna live that way anymore.
- 00:25:01.042 --> 00:25:03.712
- I wanna believe in jesus, i want a new life.
- 00:25:03.712 --> 00:25:06.014
- I want the hope of heaven.
- 00:25:06.014 --> 00:25:07.649
- I want my guilt removed," and then you must receive christ
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- Into your life.
- 00:25:11.853 --> 00:25:13.221
- Listen, jesus christ, who died on the cross, rose again from
- 00:25:13.221 --> 00:25:16.791
- The dead three days later, and he's with us right now at angel
- 00:25:16.791 --> 00:25:20.896
- Stadium, or wherever you are watching or listening, and he's
- 00:25:20.896 --> 00:25:24.366
- Standing at the door of your life, and he's knocking, and he
- 00:25:24.366 --> 00:25:27.903
- Is saying if you'll hear his voice and open the door, he'll
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- Come in.
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- Greg: have you ever heard the term gospel before?
- 00:25:35.944 --> 00:25:38.179
- It means good news.
- 00:25:38.179 --> 00:25:39.514
- But before i can fully appreciate the good news,
- 00:25:39.514 --> 00:25:42.217
- I have to know the bad news.
- 00:25:42.217 --> 00:25:45.020
- You and i were sinners, which means we've broken god's
- 00:25:45.020 --> 00:25:48.156
- Commandments, we've fallen short of his standards.
- 00:25:48.156 --> 00:25:50.625
- Good news, jesus christ died in our place.
- 00:25:50.625 --> 00:25:54.062
- He came to pay a debt he did not owe because we owed a debt we
- 00:25:54.062 --> 00:25:57.832
- Could not pay.
- 00:25:57.832 --> 00:25:59.167
- If you will turn from your sin
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- And put your faith in jesus christ, you can be forgiven
- 00:26:00.835 --> 00:26:04.539
- And know that you'll go to heaven when you die
- 00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:06.875
- And find the meaning of life right here on planet earth.
- 00:26:06.875 --> 00:26:11.012
- You just call out to jesus and say:
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- Forgive me, i want to have a relationship with you.
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- I would like to send you a bible
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- At no charge to help you get
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- Started in your new relationship
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- With christ.
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- Greg: you know, the bible says, "a good person
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- Leaves an inheritance for their children's children."
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- God encourages all of us as christians to manage
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- Our money well so we can be a blessing to our families
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- And to others.
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- Harvest has a special gift for you today, an opportunity
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- To set up a will or a living trust completely free of charge.
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- Here's how you can learn more.
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- Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest
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- We partnered with our friends at freewill.
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- Freewill is an easy to use estate planning tool
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- That allows you to make planned gifts to organizations
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- Of your choice.
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- It's a creative opportunity to support the work we're doing
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- Here at harvest ministries.
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- So as you make your plans, i hope you'll consider
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- Investing in this ministry so we can continue
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- To preach the gospel and teach the word of god
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- For years to come.
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- You can learn more at freewill.com/harvest.
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