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Greg Laurie - The Road Less Traveled

September 21, 2025 | 29:0

Greg Laurie - The Road Less Traveled
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - The Road Less Traveled | September 21, 2025
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  • Greg laurie: the bible says, "cursed is every man that hangs
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  • On a tree."
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  • Jesus died on the cross for our sin so we could be forgiven in
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  • Life and so we could spend eternity with him.
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  • Jesus says, "narrow is the way that leads to life and few there
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  • Are that find it."
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  • Yes, it is the road less traveled, but it is the best
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  • Road, and as far as i'm concerned, it's the only road.
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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: life is filled with lots of choices, isn't it?
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  • You can sit down in front of a television set and have over
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  • 1000 channels to choose from.
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  • Have you ever flipped through those channels and literally not
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  • Found anything worth watching?
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  • And if you're like me, i'll start on something.
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  • "i'm gonna watch this," and then the commercial comes and now
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  • I'm gone.
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  • I leave.
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  • I'm off to something else, so "i'm watching this."
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  • Then a commercial comes, so i go back to the other thing i was
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  • Watching until the commercial comes again.
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  • Now i go to a third thing.
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  • So sometimes i'm watching three things at the same time while
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  • Scrolling on my phone.
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  • Am i the only one?
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  • All these choices in front of us?
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  • Then you have choices when you go into restaurants.
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  • Have you ever gone to cheescake factory?
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  • That menu is too big.
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  • It's like a book, page after page after page.
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  • "let's turn in our menu to page four."
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  • I mean, it's like, what is this?
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  • That's why i like in-n-out burger, it's so simple.
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  • Hamburger, hamburger with two patties, add cheese,
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  • French fries, malts, that's it, we're done here.
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  • Or even chick-fil-a, you know, you can get the spicy, you can
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  • Get the regular, but not a lot of options, it simplifies life.
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  • Well, we have choices we make that are really important
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  • In life.
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  • What career path we're going to follow.
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  • Who we're gonna marry, that's a huge choice.
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  • The most important choice of all is what we do with jesus christ.
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  • Well, listen, we're not the only one that makes choices.
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  • God makes choices too.
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  • And his choices don't always make sense to us, but we're
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  • Starting a brand new series on the life of david, and this is a
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  • Man that god chose, david.
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  • He rose from obscurity to being the greatest king in the history
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  • Of the nation israel.
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  • They still sing about david today.
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  • There's a folk song that's been popular that's still sung to
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  • This present day, [speaking in hebrew],
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  • Which means, "david is still the king in israel."
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  • It's been a long time since he sat on the throne
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  • There in jerusalem.
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  • But think about david, a shepherd boy, a musician, a
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  • Poet, a warrior, and a great king.
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  • But he also was a part of the messianic line, and that's
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  • So significant.
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  • Because when jesus walked this earth, he could have identified
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  • With a lot of people.
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  • He could have said, "i'm jesus the son of abraham," or "i'm
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  • Jesus the son of another great patriarch," but he identified
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  • Himself as jesus the son of david.
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  • Remember, blind bartimaeus heard jesus was coming, and he cried
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  • Out, "jesus, son of david, have mercy on me!"
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  • There's more written in the bible about david than any other
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  • Bible character.
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  • There are 66 chapters dedicated, 66 chapters dedicated to the
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  • Life of david, 59 references to him in the new testament
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  • As well.
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  • But he was not only a shepherd and a warrior and a king, but he
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  • Also was an adulterer and a murderer and a dismal failure.
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  • The story of david is not the greatness of a man, it's the
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  • Greatness of the god who gave him second chances.
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  • David's life is a study in contrasts.
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  • In battle, he was fearless.
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  • In wisdom and ruling, without peer.
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  • But he was not just some macho dude.
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  • He had a tender heart.
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  • He was a poet.
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  • He was a musician.
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  • He had a heart toward god and he's uniquely described in the
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  • Bible as a man after god's own heart.
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  • Who can forget his dramatic rise from shepherd boy to
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  • Giant killer?
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  • And two other names come to mind when you think of david, and i
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  • Bet you know them both.
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  • David and goliath and david and...that's it.
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  • One was his greatest victory, the other his worst defeat, but
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  • Yet he was greatly loved by his people and he had his heart
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  • Turned toward god.
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  • And david kept a diary.
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  • It wasn't a little diary with a little heart shaped lock, you
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  • Know, with a little tiny key, but he kept a diary.
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  • And the diary is what we call the book of psalms.
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  • And in many ways these were songs, some of them were
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  • Composed with music and sung, but they're also lamentations.
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  • Honestly, sometimes they're complaints, sometimes they're
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  • Declarations of praise, other times they're prayers, and
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  • Actually the psalms, 150 of them in total, are songs and prayers
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  • From the history of israel, but 73 of them were written
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  • By david.
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  • Think of the comfort and the encouragement that people have
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  • Received from the psalms.
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  • Just take psalm 23.
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  • How many people have been blessed by that psalm,
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  • Especially as they're passing into eternity?
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  • "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want.
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  • He makes me to lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside the
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  • Still waters.
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  • He restores my soul.
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  • Yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i
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  • Will fear no evil for you are with me.
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  • Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
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  • You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.
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  • My cup runneth over.
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  • Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my
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  • Life, and i will dwell in the house of the lord forever."
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  • Such a powerful psalm.
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  • Well, we're gonna look at psalm 1, and this first psalm is a
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  • Study in contrasts.
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  • It shows us that life is filled with cause and effect.
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  • You do this and that will happen.
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  • You do that and this will happen.
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  • So we need to think very carefully about our choices.
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  • Last night my granddaughter stella was at our house and she
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  • Has a little bible study that she goes to on saturday nights
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  • And i thought what a great thing for a bunch of kids to do on a
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  • Saturday night, right?
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  • And she said, "papa," that's what they call me, "would you
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  • Come over to the bible study?
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  • It'll freak the kids out."
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  • So i went.
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  • And i had a great time talking to these kids.
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  • And so i said, "why don't i talk to you about psalm 1?"
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  • 'cause i'd been preparing for it, and i just said,
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  • "you guys, you're young and you have your whole life
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  • In front of you.
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  • And you're making choices today that are gonna affect you in
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  • Years to come so choose well and make the right choices."
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  • And then we just sort of went through psalm 1 and showed them
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  • How it applied to their life.
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  • And that is true for all of us as well.
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  • Here's what it comes down to, do you wanna be a happy person?
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  • If you wanna be a happy person, do the things that we're about
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  • To read, and also, if you wanna be a happy person, don't do the
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  • Things that we're told not to do.
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  • The bible tells us this, if you wanna be happy for the rest of
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  • Your life, never make a pretty woman your wife.
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  • From my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you.
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  • How many of you have read that verse?
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  • It's not in the bible.
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  • It's a really weird song.
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  • How many of you remember that song?
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  • Yes, you're old, aren't you?
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  • I remember it as well.
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  • And there's no truth in it whatsoever because i actually
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  • Married a beautiful woman, but, but seriously, if you want to be
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  • A happy person, there are certain things you should do and
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  • There are certain things you should not do and they're laid
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  • Out for us here in psalm 1, so why don't we read it together?
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  • "blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
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  • Ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the
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  • Seat of the scornful.
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  • But his delight is in the law of the lord, and in his law doth he
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  • Meditate day and night.
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  • He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that
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  • Bringeth forth fruit in his season, his leaves shall not
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  • Wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper."
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  • Now, in contrast, "the ungodly are not so.
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  • They are like the chaff which the wind driveth way.
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  • Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor
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  • Sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
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  • For the lord knoweth the way of the righteous; but the way of
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  • The ungodly shall perish."
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  • There it is, psalm 1.
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  • I recommend you committed to memory too and you can do it.
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  • "well i can't, i can't remember anything."
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  • Oh, stop. you can.
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  • You remember weird jingles on television.
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  • "1-877-cars for kids."
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  • Songs from the radio or from spotify, you remember lines from
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  • Movies that you quote, don't tell me you can't
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  • Memorize scripture.
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  • You can memorize this.
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  • So here's some points from what we have just read if you're
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  • Taking notes, and i hope you are.
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  • Point number one, the happy person walks the right way.
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  • Verse one, "blessed is a man that walks not on the counsel of
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  • The ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
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  • The seat of the scornful."
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  • So walk.
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  • Most of us walk, some of us run.
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  • I think you notice a person more if they run, especially if
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  • You're tom cruise.
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  • He's always running. have you ever noticed that?
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  • In all of his movies, here's the scene where tom cruise
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  • Is gonna run really fast.
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  • Okay, you can run, you can walk, but what's so great about this
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  • Word "walk" is it just speaks of a cadence and a consistency.
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  • It's not a spectacular thing to do, but it's something that
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  • Speaks of the christian life.
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  • On more than one occasion, the bible compares our relationship
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  • With jesus to a walk.
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  • Colossians 2:6 says, "as you receive jesus christ as your
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  • Lord, so walk in him."
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  • Galatians 5 says, "walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill
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  • The lusts of the flesh."
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  • 1 john 1:7 says that we walk in the light as he is in the light.
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  • We have fellowship one with another, and the blood of jesus
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  • Christ cleanses us from all sin.
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  • Back in the book of genesis, we read that enoch walked with god
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  • And was not.
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  • Which means that one day he was out taking a walk with the lord
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  • And maybe the lord said, "hey, buddy, we're closer to my house
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  • Than yours.
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  • Why don't you come home with me today?"
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  • And he was caught up in the presence of the lord, but this
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  • Is the idea of just consistency.
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  • I was telling those kids last night, you know, the secret to
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  • The christian life is consistency.
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  • I think we're all looking for the big emotional experience and
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  • I'm gonna go to church and have this encounter with god or go to
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  • That retreat and everything's gonna change and i'm not in any
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  • Way suggesting god can't move at certain moments in our life, but
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  • Here's what i'm saying, the real secret source of christianity is
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  • Daily obedience to god.
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  • One person defined it as long obedience in the same direction.
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  • It's walking by faith, not by feeling.
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  • And the problem is, you know, we have these emotional highs and
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  • Lows and these ups and these downs and we're at the height of
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  • The mountain and when we crash and burn, it's consistency, it's
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  • Walking with god.
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  • If you want to be a happy person, you need to walk with
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  • God and also don't walk in the counsel of the ungodly.
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  • Now, when we say ungodly, it doesn't mean that you're
  • 00:12:30.762 --> 00:12:34.365
  • Necessarily an immoral or wicked person, though people who are
  • 00:12:34.365 --> 00:12:39.304
  • Wicked and immoral would be ungodly.
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  • It could just be a description of what we might call a garden
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  • Variety nonbeliever.
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  • You know, they're actually a nice person.
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  • They pay their bills, they provide for their families, they
  • 00:12:50.515 --> 00:12:53.818
  • Clean up after their dogs.
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  • I hope they do.
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  • Are you one of those people that let your dogs go and don't
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  • Do anything, leave it there for others to step in?
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  • Are you, just raise your hand now.
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  • Okay, nobody did, glad to hear that.
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  • But on the weekend, church is not a part of their plan.
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  • "we're gonna go to the mountains, we're gonna go to the
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  • Desert, we're gonna go to the beach.
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  • We'll do whatever," but there's just no god in their life.
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  • So in that sense they're ungodly.
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  • But when you're ungodly you don't have any real direction in
  • 00:13:23.481 --> 00:13:26.551
  • Life, the ungodly are aimless.
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  • They're not sure what right and wrong are.
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  • They're not sure where they are going exactly.
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  • Years ago, the beatles--that's a band that once existed, kids.
  • 00:13:35.860 --> 00:13:41.099
  • This band recorded a lot of songs, and one of them
  • 00:13:41.099 --> 00:13:43.301
  • Was called, "nowhere man."
  • 00:13:43.301 --> 00:13:45.270
  • Do you remember that song?
  • 00:13:45.270 --> 00:13:46.804
  • The lyrics were, "he's a real nowhere man, living in his
  • 00:13:46.804 --> 00:13:50.541
  • Nowhere land, making all his nowhere plans, for nobody.
  • 00:13:50.541 --> 00:13:55.647
  • Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to.
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  • Isn't he a bit like you and me?"
  • 00:14:00.251 --> 00:14:02.353
  • And that's the godless person, the ungodly person, they're just
  • 00:14:02.353 --> 00:14:05.590
  • Drifting through life with no real direction, no biblical
  • 00:14:05.590 --> 00:14:09.594
  • Worldview, no distinct person, going nowhere fast.
  • 00:14:09.594 --> 00:14:13.598
  • Greg: i love psalm 1 because it tells us things that we should
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  • Not do and things that we should do if we wanna be happy.
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  • Do you wanna be a happy person?
  • 00:14:25.910 --> 00:14:27.712
  • Here's what psalm 1 says, "blessed" or happy, "is the
  • 00:14:27.712 --> 00:14:31.082
  • Man," or the woman, "who does not walk in the counsel of the
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  • Ungodly or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of
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  • The scornful."
  • 00:14:37.422 --> 00:14:38.823
  • Did you notice that regression?
  • 00:14:38.823 --> 00:14:40.692
  • First, you're walking, then you're standing, then
  • 00:14:40.692 --> 00:14:43.227
  • You're sitting.
  • 00:14:43.227 --> 00:14:44.562
  • Let's say you're on a diet and you just happen to walk by
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  • Krispy kreme donuts every day.
  • 00:14:48.533 --> 00:14:50.501
  • So you're walking along, your morning walking.
  • 00:14:50.501 --> 00:14:53.471
  • And then you notice that the little sign is lit up, which
  • 00:14:53.471 --> 00:14:56.240
  • Means they're making fresh donuts.
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  • Now you're standing.
  • 00:14:57.942 --> 00:14:59.277
  • First you were walking, now you're standing.
  • 00:14:59.277 --> 00:15:00.945
  • You're looking in the window.
  • 00:15:00.945 --> 00:15:02.714
  • Next thing you know, you're sitting, eating 12 krispy kreme
  • 00:15:02.714 --> 00:15:06.584
  • Doughnuts and washing them down with some cold milk.
  • 00:15:06.584 --> 00:15:08.853
  • Okay, that's how sin works.
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  • You're walking by, "oh, there's sin, i don't wanna do that.
  • 00:15:10.855 --> 00:15:14.092
  • But what is going on in there?
  • 00:15:14.092 --> 00:15:15.460
  • What is this temptation?"
  • 00:15:15.460 --> 00:15:16.794
  • You're standing.
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  • Next thing you know, you're sitting.
  • 00:15:18.162 --> 00:15:19.564
  • First you're walking, then you're standing, then
  • 00:15:19.564 --> 00:15:21.299
  • You're sitting.
  • 00:15:21.299 --> 00:15:22.667
  • "happy is the person that does not walk in the counsel of the
  • 00:15:22.667 --> 00:15:25.670
  • Ungodly or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of
  • 00:15:25.670 --> 00:15:28.873
  • The scornful."
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  • That's what you should not do.
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  • But one of the things i love about the bible is it tells us
  • 00:15:31.709 --> 00:15:34.946
  • We should not do things, but then it tells us to do other
  • 00:15:34.946 --> 00:15:38.282
  • Things in the place of that.
  • 00:15:38.282 --> 00:15:40.885
  • For instance, the bible says, "walk in the spirit and you will
  • 00:15:40.885 --> 00:15:43.988
  • Not fulfill the lust of the flesh," right?
  • 00:15:43.988 --> 00:15:45.990
  • So, do this, don't do that.
  • 00:15:45.990 --> 00:15:47.692
  • So instead of walking in the counsel of the ungodly, that
  • 00:15:47.692 --> 00:15:51.629
  • Chapter goes on to say, "but his delight is in the word of the
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  • Lord and in it does he meditate day and night."
  • 00:15:56.834 --> 00:16:00.238
  • So the word of the lord, that's the bible.
  • 00:16:00.238 --> 00:16:03.574
  • Notice it's done day and night.
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  • You should start the day with the bible.
  • 00:16:05.543 --> 00:16:07.845
  • You should end the day with the bible.
  • 00:16:07.845 --> 00:16:09.680
  • You know, sometimes when i'm going to sleep, i just will go
  • 00:16:09.680 --> 00:16:14.018
  • Over scriptures, scriptures that i've committed to memory like
  • 00:16:14.018 --> 00:16:17.555
  • The lord's prayer.
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  • "our father who art in heaven, hollowed be your name.
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  • Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is
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  • In heaven.
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  • Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we
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  • Forgive those who've sinned against us, lead us not into
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  • Temptation but deliver us from the evil one.
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  • For yours is the power, the kingdom and the glory
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  • Forever, amen."
  • 00:16:39.277 --> 00:16:40.711
  • Or maybe psalm 23, "the lord is my shepherd, i shall not want.
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  • He makes me lie down in green pastures.
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  • He leads me beside the still waters, he restores my soul,"
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  • And on and on.
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  • Great verses go.
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  • And it just sort of reset your mind, you know?
  • 00:16:54.892 --> 00:16:57.728
  • Start the day with scripture.
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  • End the day with scripture.
  • 00:16:59.230 --> 00:17:00.631
  • And by the way, the word meditate means to ponder.
  • 00:17:00.631 --> 00:17:03.634
  • You know, in eastern meditation, one tries to empty their mind
  • 00:17:03.634 --> 00:17:07.238
  • While wearing lululemon and sitting in a lotus position.
  • 00:17:07.238 --> 00:17:11.008
  • In biblical meditation, one seeks to fill their mind with
  • 00:17:11.008 --> 00:17:15.146
  • The word of god.
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  • Don't do this, walk in the counsel of the ungodly.
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  • Do this instead.
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  • Fill your mind with the word of god.
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  • If you do that, you'll be a happy person.
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  • Greg: so happiness, it comes from not doing the wrong things.
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  • The happy person walks the right way.
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  • Number two, the happy person thinks the right way.
  • 00:17:39.170 --> 00:17:43.574
  • Look at verse 2: "his delight is in the law of the lord, and in
  • 00:17:43.574 --> 00:17:47.745
  • It does he meditate day and night."
  • 00:17:47.745 --> 00:17:49.413
  • Now law of the lord could just as easily be translated to word
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  • Of the lord, or to put it another way, he meditates in the
  • 00:17:54.685 --> 00:17:58.589
  • Bible day and night, okay, so.
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  • That's a secret.
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  • Don't live in this ungodly way, but meditate in the word of god.
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  • He delights in it.
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  • I love that.
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  • It's not something you have to do.
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  • It's something you wanna do.
  • 00:18:12.837 --> 00:18:15.072
  • C.h. spurgeon, a great preacher from days gone by made this
  • 00:18:15.072 --> 00:18:18.376
  • Statement, and i quote, "man must have some delight, some
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  • Supreme pleasure.
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  • His heart was never meant to be a vacuum.
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  • If it is not filled with the best things, it will be filled
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  • With the unworthy and disappointing," end quote.
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  • What do you delight in,
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  • You take joy in it?
  • 00:18:35.159 --> 00:18:36.527
  • Some people delight in eating, eating.
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  • Others delight in exercise.
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  • I don't understand those people.
  • 00:18:44.168 --> 00:18:46.504
  • But they do.
  • 00:18:46.504 --> 00:18:48.472
  • Others delight in criticizing.
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  • It's almost like a sport for them.
  • 00:18:51.943 --> 00:18:53.778
  • Oh, they love to criticize.
  • 00:18:53.778 --> 00:18:55.680
  • The only exercise they get is jumping to conclusions and
  • 00:18:55.680 --> 00:18:59.283
  • Running down others.
  • 00:18:59.283 --> 00:19:02.853
  • Some delight in the word of god.
  • 00:19:02.853 --> 00:19:05.456
  • And the happy person delights in the word of god day and night.
  • 00:19:05.456 --> 00:19:09.093
  • You start the day with the bible, you end the day with
  • 00:19:09.093 --> 00:19:11.729
  • The bible.
  • 00:19:11.729 --> 00:19:13.264
  • What a great way to start your day.
  • 00:19:13.264 --> 00:19:15.600
  • Before you read social media, before you check your emails,
  • 00:19:15.600 --> 00:19:18.769
  • You need to read the bible before you do it to get your
  • 00:19:18.769 --> 00:19:21.706
  • Heart and mind in the right place.
  • 00:19:21.706 --> 00:19:23.908
  • Start your day with the word of god.
  • 00:19:23.908 --> 00:19:25.576
  • End your day with the word of god.
  • 00:19:25.576 --> 00:19:28.479
  • The happy person walks the right way.
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  • They don't walk in the council of the ungodly or stand in the
  • 00:19:31.082 --> 00:19:33.718
  • Way of sinners or sit in the seat of the scornful.
  • 00:19:33.718 --> 00:19:36.387
  • The happy person thinks the right way, they meditate in,
  • 00:19:36.387 --> 00:19:41.259
  • Ponder, contemplate, memorize the word of god, and then the
  • 00:19:41.259 --> 00:19:46.764
  • Happy person is rooted the right way.
  • 00:19:46.764 --> 00:19:49.033
  • Look at verse 3, "he shall be like a tree planted by the
  • 00:19:49.033 --> 00:19:53.437
  • Rivers of water that bring forth fruit in his season.
  • 00:19:53.437 --> 00:19:57.408
  • His leaves shall not wither and whatsoever he does
  • 00:19:57.408 --> 00:20:01.078
  • Will prosper."
  • 00:20:01.078 --> 00:20:02.880
  • You're rooted the right way, you're planted.
  • 00:20:02.880 --> 00:20:05.683
  • Jesus said, "if you continue in my word, then are you my
  • 00:20:05.683 --> 00:20:08.286
  • Disciples," and the word continue is also
  • 00:20:08.286 --> 00:20:10.921
  • Translated abide.
  • 00:20:10.921 --> 00:20:13.357
  • You say, "i don't know what that means.
  • 00:20:13.357 --> 00:20:14.692
  • Is that like 'the dude' abides and 'the big lebowski'?"
  • 00:20:14.692 --> 00:20:17.228
  • No, not really.
  • 00:20:17.228 --> 00:20:18.663
  • To abide means to stay in a given place.
  • 00:20:18.663 --> 00:20:21.499
  • It's like you plant a tree and you keep the tree there.
  • 00:20:21.499 --> 00:20:24.268
  • Let's say i planted a tree in my backyard and i thought, i don't
  • 00:20:24.268 --> 00:20:26.937
  • Know, this isn't a good place.
  • 00:20:26.937 --> 00:20:28.306
  • I ripped it up, put it in my front yard, planted it, i don't
  • 00:20:28.306 --> 00:20:32.977
  • Like it there.
  • 00:20:32.977 --> 00:20:34.345
  • I think the backyard was a good choice.
  • 00:20:34.345 --> 00:20:35.680
  • Rip it up, put it back in my backyard again, change my mind
  • 00:20:35.680 --> 00:20:38.649
  • Again, that tree is gonna die.
  • 00:20:38.649 --> 00:20:40.851
  • If you want a tree to flourish and bring forth fruit, you need
  • 00:20:40.851 --> 00:20:45.222
  • To leave it in a given place and let it sink its roots deeply.
  • 00:20:45.222 --> 00:20:49.527
  • The same is true in the christian life.
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  • Here's our problem, we get rooted up.
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  • I'm in a church.
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  • I'm actively involved.
  • 00:20:54.999 --> 00:20:56.334
  • I'm serving the lord.
  • 00:20:56.334 --> 00:20:57.668
  • Oh, i don't wanna go to this church anymore.
  • 00:20:57.668 --> 00:20:59.236
  • Let's go to another one. rip it up.
  • 00:20:59.236 --> 00:21:00.571
  • Now we go over here. oh, i don't like this anymore.
  • 00:21:00.571 --> 00:21:03.140
  • Oh, i used to read my bible.
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  • Now i don't do it anymore and, you know, you're always
  • 00:21:04.542 --> 00:21:07.745
  • Uprooting yourself.
  • 00:21:07.745 --> 00:21:09.680
  • And this is why you're having all these problems.
  • 00:21:09.680 --> 00:21:12.383
  • But abiding is what jesus told us we should do.
  • 00:21:12.383 --> 00:21:16.821
  • He made this amazing promise, john 15.
  • 00:21:16.821 --> 00:21:20.558
  • Jesus speaking, "if you abide in me and my words abide in you,
  • 00:21:20.558 --> 00:21:24.995
  • You shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you."
  • 00:21:24.995 --> 00:21:28.899
  • From a greek translation, it would sound something like this,
  • 00:21:28.899 --> 00:21:32.370
  • Jesus speaking:
  • 00:21:32.370 --> 00:21:33.738
  • "if you maintain a living communion with me and my word is
  • 00:21:33.738 --> 00:21:37.441
  • At home in you, you can ask it once for yourself whatever your
  • 00:21:37.441 --> 00:21:42.179
  • Heart desires, and it will be yours."
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  • It actually says that.
  • 00:21:44.515 --> 00:21:46.884
  • So we immediately gravitate toward the latter part of
  • 00:21:46.884 --> 00:21:49.253
  • That verse.
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  • Oh wow, whatever my heart desires.
  • 00:21:50.588 --> 00:21:51.956
  • Hold on, condition.
  • 00:21:51.956 --> 00:21:54.325
  • If i maintain a living communion with him and his word
  • 00:21:54.325 --> 00:21:58.162
  • Is at home in me, see, that's gonna change what i pray for.
  • 00:21:58.162 --> 00:22:02.767
  • Abiding in christ, and what does that produce?
  • 00:22:02.767 --> 00:22:05.636
  • You'll bring forth much fruit.
  • 00:22:05.636 --> 00:22:08.272
  • But what does that mean?
  • 00:22:08.272 --> 00:22:09.774
  • What is fruit?
  • 00:22:09.774 --> 00:22:11.642
  • Well, one answer is given to us in galatians 5:22.
  • 00:22:11.642 --> 00:22:15.246
  • It says, "the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace,
  • 00:22:15.246 --> 00:22:20.684
  • Patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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  • And self-control."
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  • If you become a christian, you should be a more loving person.
  • 00:22:29.560 --> 00:22:32.830
  • Honestly, i'm not that impressed with your theology if i don't
  • 00:22:32.830 --> 00:22:36.834
  • See spiritual fruit in your life.
  • 00:22:36.834 --> 00:22:39.270
  • I've met people that know their bible very well and they love to
  • 00:22:39.270 --> 00:22:44.141
  • Criticize other people, but i don't see love in their life.
  • 00:22:44.141 --> 00:22:48.579
  • I see intolerance and meanness and harshness, and i say,
  • 00:22:48.579 --> 00:22:52.917
  • Where's the spiritual fruit, not just the spiritual knowledge.
  • 00:22:52.917 --> 00:22:57.121
  • Hey, we can have both and we should have both and the more i
  • 00:22:57.121 --> 00:23:00.891
  • Grow in the knowledge of scripture, the more fruit i
  • 00:23:00.891 --> 00:23:03.661
  • Should have on my life.
  • 00:23:03.661 --> 00:23:04.995
  • But as a believer, i should be a more loving person, but
  • 00:23:04.995 --> 00:23:07.798
  • Sometimes i'm the last one to see the fruit.
  • 00:23:07.798 --> 00:23:11.168
  • Sometimes another person can tell you if you're growing
  • 00:23:11.168 --> 00:23:14.839
  • Better than you can see it yourself.
  • 00:23:14.839 --> 00:23:17.608
  • The best way i could probably find out how you're doing
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  • Spiritually is ask your wife or your husband or your kids.
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  • How are they doing?
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  • Are they a godly man?
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  • Is she a godly woman?
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  • Well, yes.
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  • Oh, great.
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  • Fruit takes time to grow.
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  • If you pulled a chair up in front of a peach tree and said,
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  • I'm gonna watch the fruit grow today, that's gonna be boring.
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  • You will not see any discernible growth whatsoever, but if you
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  • Were to set up a camera and do some time lapse photography, you
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  • Would see rapid growth.
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  • So as you abide in christ, as you sink your roots deeply into
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  • Him, you will produce spiritual fruit in your life.
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  • That's something we should all want.
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  • So here's how psalm 1 ends.
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  • Verse 4, "the ungodly are not so.
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  • They're like worthless chaff scattered by the wind.
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  • They'll be condemned at the time of judgment.
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  • Sinners will have no place among the godly.
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  • For the lord watches over the path of the godly, but the path
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  • Of the wicked leads to destruction."
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  • There it is.
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  • There's your choice in life.
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  • The happy road or the road to misery.
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  • The road to heaven or the road to hell.
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  • The life of the godly or the life of the ungodly.
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  • The life built on rock or the life built on sand.
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  • You can be planted or you can be rootless.
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  • You have a choice in life.
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  • When i was talking to those kids, i said you have your whole
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  • Life in front of you, make the right choices now, and you won't
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  • Regret it later.
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  • You know, i think of so many people who made the wrong
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  • Choices, you know them.
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  • Maybe you're one of them.
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  • But here's the good news.
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  • Even if you've made some bad choices, it's not too late
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  • To change.
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  • It's not too late to come to the lord and say, "lord, i've made a
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  • Mess of my life.
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  • I've missed opportunities, i've wasted time, i've wasted so many
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  • Things, but i'm coming to you and i'm asking you to help me
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  • And to change me and forgive me."
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  • That's why jesus died on the cross.
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  • Listen, psalm 1, there's only one person who has ever lived
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  • Psalm 1 perfectly, and it's me.
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  • Let me explain. that was a joke.
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  • It's not me.
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  • No one has, but jesus lived it perfectly.
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  • He never walked in the counsel of the ungodly.
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  • He never walked in the way of sinners or sat in the seat of
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  • The scornful.
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  • He did meditate in god's word day and night.
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  • He was like that tree planted by the rivers of water that brought
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  • Forth fruit in it's season.
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  • But then he went and died on a tree, so to speak.
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  • The bible says, "cursed is every man that hangs on a tree."
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  • Jesus died on the cross for our sin so we could be forgiven
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  • In life.
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  • And so we could spend eternity with him.
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  • Jesus says narrow is the way that leads to life and few there
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  • Are that find it.
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  • Yes, it is the road less traveled, but it is the best
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  • Road, and as far as i'm concerned, it's the only road.
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  • Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie. i've got some good news for you.
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  • God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is that 2,000 years ago, god sent
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  • His son, jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin,
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  • And then to rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready
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  • To come into your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior, who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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  • From this moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven has heard you.
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  • Congratulations, and welcome to the family of god.
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