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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - A Rush of Hope (Part 2) | July 23, 2025
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- Greg laurie: i'm greg laurie,
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- And welcome to part two of our cinematic crusade
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- That we're calling "a rush of hope."
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- ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins ♪
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: our life is like a movie:
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- It has a beginning, middle, and end;
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- Full of surprises, with twists and turns,
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- With storm clouds and darkness.
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- But beauty in light still exist.
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- We all have questions about this movie that we're in.
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- Is this movie a tragedy? is it a love story?
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- Is it a comedy even? do we win in the end?
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- I'm greg laurie, and my story has followed
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- All the plot twists of the greatest movies.
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- We see ourselves in these stories.
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- I'm gonna take you on a journey through three incredible movies
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- And hear from some of my favorite artists.
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- So, join me as we explore the meaning of life
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- And what happens after we die.
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- We all need a rush of hope.
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- Gary sinise: my life is not full
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- In spite of the disappointments,
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- It's full because of them.
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- Jeremy camp: you know what's amazing about the lord
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- Is that he's so longsuffering
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- Because it wasn't like he was saying,
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- "okay, get over it.
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- I'm here, i'll take care of you."
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- Every--he met me where i was,
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- And i felt like every little step i took,
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- If i didn't feel like i could take a big step,
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- I would take a little baby step.
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- It's like, "i got you; i got you."
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- And i think that for me, you know,
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- All the promises in god's word became even more real to me.
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- Like, through just time, god took a open wound
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- And then, you know, a scar still remains for sure,
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- As you know, still a scar,
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- But it's not an open wound anymore,
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- And i think that for me, i'm so thankful that,
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- You know, understanding that god's graciousness
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- And his goodness in the midst of pain
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- Has been such a healing thing for me
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- Because he went through suffering.
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- I think about melissa when she was in the hospital,
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- And i walked in for the first time
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- And we found out she had cancer,
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- And she said to me, "you know, i've been sitting here thinking
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- That if my life affects one person
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- And one person's life has changed
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- Because of what i go through if i die,
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- It's all worth it."
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- And you know, when i look at that
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- And i think about how she could say that
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- Is because she knew jesus.
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- And so, she knew the assurance that she was gonna be in heaven
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- So that if her life can even lead
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- One person to jesus, it's all worth it.
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- And now i'm looking at thousands and thousands and thousands
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- Of people who have given their life to jesus
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- Because of what she went through
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- And because of her heart and her faith.
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- Male: so, this one's for her.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ scattered words and empty thoughts ♪
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- ♪ seem to pour from my heart ♪
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- ♪ i've never felt so torn before ♪
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- ♪ seems i don't know where to start ♪
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- ♪ but it's now ♪
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- ♪ that i feel ♪
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- ♪ your grace fall like rain ♪
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- ♪ from every fingertip ♪
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- ♪ washing away my pain ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe ♪
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- ♪ in your faithfulness ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe in your truth ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe in your holy word ♪
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- ♪ even when i don't see, i still believe ♪
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- ♪ and the only place i can go is into your arms ♪
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- ♪ where i throw to you my feeble prayers, ♪
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- ♪ and in brokenness, i can see this was your will for me ♪
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- ♪ help me to know that you are near, yeah ♪
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- ♪ i still believe ♪
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- ♪ in your faithfulness ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe ♪
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- ♪ in your truth ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe in your holy word ♪
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- ♪ even when i don't see, i still believe, oh ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe ♪
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- ♪ and i still believe ♪♪
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- Female: jeremy.
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- You don't know me.
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- I feel like i knew her, your wife,
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- Melissa.
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- I was there the night that you prayed over her,
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- We were the next band.
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- I'm the one whose life was changed.
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- And there will be millions more.
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- [waves crashing]
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- Female: i feel very protective of jeremy and melissa's story,
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- I think because of how much the lord did in my life,
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- That it was something that i needed to hear.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: one of the questions i raised earlier was,
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- "why do i exist?
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- Why am i here on this earth to start with?"
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- I was asking that question at a very early age,
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- And there was a reason for it,
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- Is because i was raised in a crazy way,
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- Conceived out of wedlock to an alcoholic mother
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- Who was married and divorced seven times.
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- I never had a father growing up.
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- My mother would drink every night
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- And basically pass out,
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- And i'd have to put her to bed
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- And sometimes get her a meal in the middle of the night,
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- And i was just a little kid,
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- And i had to be, in a way, a parent to my own parent.
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- And so, it got me asking questions like,
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- "man, why am i here? what is the meaning of life?
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- Why is my life so bad?"
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- Because i would look at the lives of my friends
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- And they had moms and dads at home and family meals,
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- And i'm living this crazy life.
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- I knew i didn't want to live
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- The alcoholic lifestyle of my mother,
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- But when i got into high school, i started partying,
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- Getting drunk, and i thought,
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- "man, this is not the life for me.
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- Well, around this time,
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- The drug culture was coming on strong.
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- I was told drugs would make you more aware.
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- So, i started smoking weed.
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- I started taking lsd, and i became more aware
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- Of how miserable and empty i was.
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- I was in full search mode at the age of 17.
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- I knew the answers were not in my mother's lifestyle.
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- I knew the answers were not
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- In the lifestyle that i had chosen,
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- But where were they?
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- It was almost like process of elimination.
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- I knew where i shouldn't go, but where should i go?
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- Well, i was on my high school campus,
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- And i was walking across the campus
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- And i came across a group of christians.
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- We called them the jesus freaks.
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- And by the way, that was not a compliment.
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- I thought they were collectively crazy,
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- But i sat down close enough, out of sheer curiosity,
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- To see what they were saying.
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- And so, i was close enough
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- To eavesdrop on their conversation
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- But not so close that my friends would think i was joining them,
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- And for the first time, i remember hearing the gospel
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- In a way that i understood.
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- What is the gospel?
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- I'm gonna tell you in a few moments,
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- But let me tell you what happened to me.
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- I'm looking around at these christians
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- And i saw they how were smiling and had this joy, and i thought,
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- "these people are so sad. they're so pathetic.
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- They're so weird. they're so happy."
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- And i looked at myself and i thought,
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- "well, i'm not happy."
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- And then i tried a new thought on for size.
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- "what if the christians are right and it's all true,
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- And god could be known in a personal way?"
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- I quickly dismissed the thought,
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- But then i tried it on again for size,
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- "but what if it's true?"
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- And then as i looked at them i thought,
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- "well, it wouldn't work for me
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- Because i'm not the religious type,"
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- But the problem was some of the people
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- Who would become christians
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- Were people i used to party with,
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- And i'd seen the change in their life,
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- So i knew it was real, and a guy got up to speak,
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- And i don't remember what he said that day
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- For the most part.
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- His name was lonnie, but he made one statement
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- That was like a lightning bolt from heaven to me.
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- He said, "jesus said, 'you're for me or against me.'"
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- I looked around at the christians and i thought,
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- "well, there for him for sure, and i'm not one of them.
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- Does that mean i'm against him?
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- See, i was searching, and only god knew
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- What i was really looking for,
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- And in a few moments, i want to tell you how you can find
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- That same relationship with god that i found
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- Because god only knows what you're going through right now.
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- ♪♪♪
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- ♪ wide awake while the world is sound a-sleeping ♪
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- ♪ too afraid of what might show up while you're dreaming ♪
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- ♪ nobody, nobody, nobody sees you ♪
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- ♪ nobody, nobody would believe you ♪
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- ♪ every day you try to pick up all the pieces ♪
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- ♪ all the memories, they somehow never leave you ♪
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- ♪ nobody, nobody, nobody sees you ♪
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- ♪ nobody, nobody would believe you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what you've been through ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what they say about you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows how it's killing you ♪
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- ♪ but there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what you've been through ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what they say about you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows the real you ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that-- there's a kind of love ♪
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- ♪ you keep a cover over every single secret ♪
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- ♪ so afraid if someone saw them they would leave ♪
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- ♪ but somebody, somebody, somebody sees you ♪
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- ♪ somebody, somebody will never leave you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what you've been through ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what they say about you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows how it's killing you ♪
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- ♪ but there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what you've been through ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what they say about you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows the real you ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that-- there's a kind of love ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that-- there's a kind of love ♪
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- ♪ for the lonely, for the ashamed ♪
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- ♪ the misunderstood, and the ones to blame ♪
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- ♪ what if we could start over? ♪
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- ♪ we could start over ♪
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- ♪ we could start over ♪
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- ♪ oh, for the lonely, for the ashamed ♪
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- ♪ the misunderstood, and the ones to blame ♪
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- ♪ what if we could start over? ♪
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- ♪ we could start over ♪
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- ♪ we could start over ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what you've been through ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what they say about you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows the real you ♪
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- ♪ but there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what you've been through ♪
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- ♪ god only knows what they say about you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows the real you ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that-- there's a kind of love ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that-- there's a kind of love ♪
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- ♪ god only knows where to find you ♪
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- ♪ god only knows how to break through ♪
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- ♪ god only knows the real you ♪
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- ♪ there's a kind of love that god only knows ♪♪
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- [cheering]
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- Greg: you know people are so scared right now.
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- I mean, you just turn on the news
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- Or go to your favorite news feed,
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- And there's so many things to cause us to, well,
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- Just freak out.
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- The continuing spread of the coronavirus
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- Around the globe, an economy that's so uncertain,
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- Because of that, we have-- drug use is up.
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- Alcohol use is up; domestic abuse, up;
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- Suicide rate, up.
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- People are scared.
- 00:15:17.139 --> 00:15:18.474
- Let me answer one of those questions
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- I raised earlier, the question "why do i exist?"
- 00:15:20.109 --> 00:15:23.512
- Sooner or later, every thinking person
- 00:15:23.512 --> 00:15:25.080
- Gets around to asking that question,
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- Or at least they should.
- 00:15:27.583 --> 00:15:29.018
- Let me cut to the chase.
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- You exist to have a relationship with god.
- 00:15:30.352 --> 00:15:33.756
- There is nothing this world offers that will fill
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- A hole in your heart
- 00:15:38.293 --> 00:15:40.362
- That was designed to be filled by god himself.
- 00:15:40.362 --> 00:15:43.632
- There's no drug, there's no experience,
- 00:15:43.632 --> 00:15:46.268
- There's no possession, there's no accomplishment,
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- Nothing.
- 00:15:48.637 --> 00:15:49.972
- Listen to this.
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- Jesus loves you, and he proved that love to you
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- By dying on the cross for you 2,000 years ago.
- 00:15:55.711 --> 00:15:58.747
- You say, "what does the death of jesus on a cross
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- Have to do with me right now in this modern era?"
- 00:16:01.483 --> 00:16:05.621
- It has everything to do with you
- 00:16:05.621 --> 00:16:07.322
- Because the bible says
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- We're separated from god by our sin.
- 00:16:08.657 --> 00:16:11.627
- We've all fallen short of god's standards.
- 00:16:11.627 --> 00:16:13.595
- We've all crossed the line and sinned against him.
- 00:16:13.595 --> 00:16:16.131
- You say, "well, i haven't sinned."
- 00:16:16.131 --> 00:16:17.466
- Everybody has sinned.
- 00:16:17.466 --> 00:16:18.934
- You ever heard of the ten commandments?
- 00:16:18.934 --> 00:16:20.736
- If you broken one of those commandments,
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- You've technically sinned.
- 00:16:22.671 --> 00:16:24.006
- What are they?
- 00:16:24.006 --> 00:16:25.340
- You shall not lie. you shall not steal.
- 00:16:25.340 --> 00:16:27.142
- You shall not take the lord's name in vain.
- 00:16:27.142 --> 00:16:29.178
- You shall not have other gods before him.
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- The list goes on.
- 00:16:31.013 --> 00:16:32.681
- We've sinned. we broken god's commandments.
- 00:16:32.681 --> 00:16:34.783
- The bad news is i am separated from god,
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- And there's nothing that i can ever do to satisfy
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- His righteous requirements.
- 00:16:41.356 --> 00:16:43.559
- The good news is god sent his son to die in my place.
- 00:16:43.559 --> 00:16:47.596
- Jesus put it best when he said,
- 00:16:47.596 --> 00:16:49.298
- "for god so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son,
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- And whosoever believes in him shall not perish,
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- But have everlasting life."
- 00:16:56.672 --> 00:16:59.208
- You see, the apostle paul said,
- 00:16:59.208 --> 00:17:00.876
- "he loved me and gave himself for me."
- 00:17:00.876 --> 00:17:03.645
- Jesus died for you.
- 00:17:03.645 --> 00:17:05.280
- Listen, it wasn't nails that held christ
- 00:17:05.280 --> 00:17:07.583
- To that cross 2,000 years ago.
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- It was love for you.
- 00:17:10.085 --> 00:17:11.787
- And with one hand, he took hold
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- Of a holy god that we've offended,
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- And with the other hand, he took hold of sinful humanity,
- 00:17:15.224 --> 00:17:18.560
- And nails were driven through his hands and his feet,
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- And he died in my place.
- 00:17:21.263 --> 00:17:23.332
- Understand jesus did that for you,
- 00:17:23.332 --> 00:17:25.367
- And then if you want his forgiveness,
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- You must say to god you're sorry for your sin.
- 00:17:27.436 --> 00:17:31.640
- The bible says we must repent and be converted.
- 00:17:31.640 --> 00:17:35.110
- That word "repent" is a military term
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- That means to do an about face.
- 00:17:37.112 --> 00:17:39.548
- So, you've been running from god.
- 00:17:39.548 --> 00:17:40.883
- Now you want to run toward god.
- 00:17:40.883 --> 00:17:42.217
- Turn from that sin,
- 00:17:42.217 --> 00:17:43.752
- And then you must receive christ into your life.
- 00:17:43.752 --> 00:17:47.623
- Being a christian is not just following a creed,
- 00:17:47.623 --> 00:17:50.359
- Or memorizing some bible verses, or going to church occasionally.
- 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:54.329
- Being a christian is having christ live inside of you.
- 00:17:54.329 --> 00:17:57.299
- This is what it is, it's a relationship with god.
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- I raised the question "what is the meaning of life?"
- 00:18:00.402 --> 00:18:03.305
- The meaning of life is to have
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- This relationship with god.
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- I know you may think, "oh, being a christian,
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- You're like some religious person.
- 00:18:09.211 --> 00:18:10.846
- Listen, i am not a religious person.
- 00:18:10.846 --> 00:18:13.248
- I don't want to be a religious person.
- 00:18:13.248 --> 00:18:15.517
- Honestly, i think religious people
- 00:18:15.517 --> 00:18:17.486
- Are all a little bit odd anyway.
- 00:18:17.486 --> 00:18:19.922
- I'm talking about a relationship with god,
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- And that's what happens when you ask jesus christ
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- To come into your life.
- 00:18:25.694 --> 00:18:27.262
- You start a relationship.
- 00:18:27.262 --> 00:18:29.031
- Let me put it another way.
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- It's a friendship with god.
- 00:18:30.365 --> 00:18:32.501
- That means you're never alone in life.
- 00:18:32.501 --> 00:18:35.237
- Jesus promises, "i will never leave you
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- Or forsake you,"
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- And a better translation would be, jesus speaking,
- 00:18:39.408 --> 00:18:42.377
- "i will never, no, never, no, never leave you
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- Or forsake you."
- 00:18:46.315 --> 00:18:47.649
- He will come and take residence in your heart.
- 00:18:47.649 --> 00:18:51.119
- Why do i exist?
- 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:52.454
- I exist to come into this relationship with god,
- 00:18:52.454 --> 00:18:56.091
- And the meaning of life is to walk with him and discover
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- His plan that he has for me.
- 00:18:59.127 --> 00:19:00.963
- Listen to this great promise from the bible.
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- In jeremiah 29:11-- that's a verse from the bible--
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- God says, "i know the thoughts that i think towards you,
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- Thoughts of peace and not of evil,
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- To give you a future and a hope."
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- Do you sometimes feel like you have no future?
- 00:19:13.809 --> 00:19:15.978
- You do.
- 00:19:15.978 --> 00:19:17.312
- God has a plan for your life,
- 00:19:17.312 --> 00:19:18.814
- And there can be hope in your life
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- If you come into this relationship
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- With the lord.
- 00:19:23.151 --> 00:19:25.287
- What happens after i die? this is the big question.
- 00:19:25.287 --> 00:19:27.656
- To be really honest with you, finding the meaning of life,
- 00:19:27.656 --> 00:19:30.993
- Finding out why you exist, those are important things,
- 00:19:30.993 --> 00:19:33.328
- But nothing is more important
- 00:19:33.328 --> 00:19:35.230
- Than finding out what happens after you die,
- 00:19:35.230 --> 00:19:38.333
- And most importantly, how to get to heaven.
- 00:19:38.333 --> 00:19:40.569
- Let me make a provocative statement,
- 00:19:40.569 --> 00:19:42.671
- But i think it's really true.
- 00:19:42.671 --> 00:19:44.139
- All roads lead to god,
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- But only one road leads to heaven.
- 00:19:46.675 --> 00:19:49.311
- What i'm saying is whatever road you're on,
- 00:19:49.311 --> 00:19:51.113
- Whatever belief you have, or lack thereof,
- 00:19:51.113 --> 00:19:53.682
- You will eventually stand before god,
- 00:19:53.682 --> 00:19:55.951
- But when you stand before god,
- 00:19:55.951 --> 00:19:57.552
- God will not ask you how good of a life you lived,
- 00:19:57.552 --> 00:20:00.155
- 'cause as i already pointed out,
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- None of us are good enough to get to heaven.
- 00:20:01.890 --> 00:20:04.393
- It won't be a sin question as much as it's a son question,
- 00:20:04.393 --> 00:20:07.796
- S-o-n, as in, "what did you do with jesus christ?"
- 00:20:07.796 --> 00:20:12.968
- There's one way to heaven and it's through jesus, why?
- 00:20:12.968 --> 00:20:15.570
- Only jesus was uniquely qualified to bridge the gap
- 00:20:15.570 --> 00:20:19.141
- Between sinful humanity and a holy god.
- 00:20:19.141 --> 00:20:23.412
- He came to this earth on a rescue mission.
- 00:20:23.412 --> 00:20:25.580
- He was born in a manger in bethlehem.
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- He lived a perfect life. he died a perfect death.
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- Then he rose again from the dead,
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- And check this out:
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- He can come and live inside of you right now.
- 00:20:33.989 --> 00:20:36.591
- He's only a prayer away.
- 00:20:36.591 --> 00:20:38.760
- The bible says,
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- "whoever will call upon the name of the lord will be saved."
- 00:20:40.095 --> 00:20:43.165
- You might ask, "well, how do you call upon the name of the lord?"
- 00:20:43.165 --> 00:20:45.767
- Through prayer.
- 00:20:45.767 --> 00:20:47.102
- Let's say i was in the middle of this beautiful lake
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- I'm standing in front of, and all of a sudden,
- 00:20:48.937 --> 00:20:51.340
- I found myself drowning.
- 00:20:51.340 --> 00:20:53.208
- Well, i would call out for help,
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- And hopefully someone would come and rescue me.
- 00:20:54.543 --> 00:20:57.112
- Well, we're drowning in sin.
- 00:20:57.112 --> 00:20:58.714
- We're separated from god, but god can rescue you.
- 00:20:58.714 --> 00:21:02.884
- God can forgive you.
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- God can give you a new chance in life.
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- Would you like your sin forgiven?
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- Would you like to know that you'll go to heaven
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- When you die?
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- Would you like to fill that hole in your heart?
- 00:21:13.628 --> 00:21:16.932
- Would you like to find the meaning of life
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- And find out why you exist?
- 00:21:19.368 --> 00:21:21.670
- It can all happen for you right here, right now.
- 00:21:21.670 --> 00:21:24.806
- So, if you would like jesus to come into your life
- 00:21:24.806 --> 00:21:27.109
- And forgive you of your sin,
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- You could pray this prayer after me.
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- You can pray it out loud if you like.
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- You can pray it quietly, but pray this and mean it.
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- Just pray these words,
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- "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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- But i know that you're the savior,
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- Who died on the cross for my sin
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- And rose again from the dead.
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- I turn from my sin now,
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- And i choose to follow you from this moment forward."
- 00:21:51.333 --> 00:21:55.937
- And if you just prayed that prayer with me
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- And meant it, this is the moment christ has come into your life,
- 00:21:57.439 --> 00:22:01.443
- And let me be the first to say to you,
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- Congratulations and welcome to the family of god.
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- ♪♪♪
- 00:22:08.083 --> 00:22:16.491
- ♪ lately, i've been reading, watching the nightly news ♪
- 00:22:16.491 --> 00:22:20.195
- ♪ can't seem to find the rhythm, just wanna sing the blues ♪
- 00:22:20.195 --> 00:22:24.166
- ♪ feels like a song that never stops ♪
- 00:22:24.166 --> 00:22:28.003
- ♪ feels like it's never gonna ♪
- 00:22:28.003 --> 00:22:30.372
- ♪ gotta get that fire, fire back in my bones ♪
- 00:22:30.372 --> 00:22:34.709
- ♪ before my heart, heart turns into stone ♪
- 00:22:34.709 --> 00:22:38.313
- ♪ so, won't somebody, please, pass the megaphone? ♪
- 00:22:38.313 --> 00:22:42.784
- ♪ i'll shout it on the count of three, c'mon ♪
- 00:22:42.784 --> 00:22:46.087
- Audience: one, two, three!
- 00:22:46.087 --> 00:22:47.756
- ♪ oh, hear my prayer tonight ♪
- 00:22:47.756 --> 00:22:50.292
- ♪ i'm singing to the sky ♪
- 00:22:50.292 --> 00:22:52.394
- ♪ give me strength to raise my voice ♪
- 00:22:52.394 --> 00:22:54.329
- ♪ let me testify ♪
- 00:22:54.329 --> 00:22:55.897
- ♪ oh, hear my prayer tonight, 'cause this is do or die ♪
- 00:22:55.897 --> 00:23:00.202
- ♪ the time has come to make a choice ♪
- 00:23:00.202 --> 00:23:02.737
- ♪ and i choose joy ♪
- 00:23:02.737 --> 00:23:05.207
- ♪ let it move you, let it move you ♪
- 00:23:05.207 --> 00:23:08.844
- ♪ let it move you ♪
- 00:23:08.844 --> 00:23:10.745
- ♪ yeah, i choose joy ♪
- 00:23:10.745 --> 00:23:13.014
- ♪ let it move you, let it move-- ♪
- 00:23:13.014 --> 00:23:16.952
- ♪ let it move you ♪
- 00:23:16.952 --> 00:23:19.588
- ♪ yeah, back when i was young, my eyes were full of life ♪
- 00:23:19.588 --> 00:23:23.992
- ♪ but now that i am older, i live at the speed of light ♪
- 00:23:23.992 --> 00:23:28.263
- ♪ feels like the cycle never stops ♪
- 00:23:28.263 --> 00:23:32.267
- ♪ feels like it's never gonna ♪
- 00:23:32.267 --> 00:23:34.369
- ♪ gotta get that fire, fire back in my bones ♪
- 00:23:34.369 --> 00:23:38.807
- ♪ before my heart, heart turns into stone ♪
- 00:23:38.807 --> 00:23:42.377
- ♪ so, won't somebody, please, pass the megaphone? ♪
- 00:23:42.377 --> 00:23:46.748
- ♪ i'll shout it on the count of three ♪
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- Audience: one, two, three!
- 00:23:50.151 --> 00:23:52.120
- ♪ oh, hear my prayer tonight, i'm singing to the sky ♪
- 00:23:52.120 --> 00:23:56.391
- ♪ give me strength to raise my voice ♪
- 00:23:56.391 --> 00:23:58.193
- ♪ let me testify ♪
- 00:23:58.193 --> 00:23:59.895
- ♪ oh, hear my prayer tonight, 'cause this is do or die ♪
- 00:23:59.895 --> 00:24:04.032
- ♪ the time has come to make a choice ♪
- 00:24:04.032 --> 00:24:06.601
- ♪ and i choose joy ♪
- 00:24:06.601 --> 00:24:08.837
- ♪ let it move you, let it move-- ♪
- 00:24:08.837 --> 00:24:12.741
- ♪ let it move you ♪
- 00:24:12.741 --> 00:24:14.676
- ♪ yeah, i choose joy ♪
- 00:24:14.676 --> 00:24:16.945
- ♪ let it move you, let it move-- ♪
- 00:24:16.945 --> 00:24:20.949
- ♪ let it move you ♪
- 00:24:20.949 --> 00:24:23.218
- ♪ though i walk through the valley ♪
- 00:24:23.218 --> 00:24:25.554
- ♪ in the shadow of night ♪
- 00:24:25.554 --> 00:24:27.155
- ♪ oh, with you by my side, i'm stepping into the light ♪
- 00:24:27.155 --> 00:24:31.159
- ♪ i choose joy ♪
- 00:24:31.159 --> 00:24:32.961
- ♪ let it move you, let it move-- ♪
- 00:24:32.961 --> 00:24:36.932
- ♪ let it move you ♪
- 00:24:36.932 --> 00:24:39.334
- ♪ i need that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart ♪
- 00:24:39.334 --> 00:24:43.939
- ♪ down in my heart to stay ♪
- 00:24:43.939 --> 00:24:47.208
- ♪ i need that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart ♪
- 00:24:47.208 --> 00:24:51.746
- ♪ down in my heart to stay ♪
- 00:24:51.746 --> 00:24:55.250
- ♪ i need that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart ♪
- 00:24:55.250 --> 00:24:59.821
- ♪ down in my heart to stay ♪
- 00:24:59.821 --> 00:25:03.058
- ♪ i need that joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart ♪
- 00:25:03.058 --> 00:25:07.862
- ♪ down in my heart to stay ♪♪
- 00:25:07.862 --> 00:25:10.865
- Male: you made us feel very loved.
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- Thank you for being with us.
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- Enjoy the rest of your night.
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- One, two--
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- ♪♪♪
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- [cheering]
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- Greg: as this journey comes to a close,
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- I just want to tell you that this is just the beginning,
- 00:26:08.690 --> 00:26:12.460
- Because you've put your faith in jesus christ,
- 00:26:12.460 --> 00:26:15.230
- But maybe some of you did not do that yet.
- 00:26:15.230 --> 00:26:18.199
- Listen, don't let this moment pass you by.
- 00:26:18.199 --> 00:26:21.569
- If you didn't pray with me, it's not too late.
- 00:26:21.569 --> 00:26:27.542
- We live in dark days, but we have great hope.
- 00:26:27.542 --> 00:26:33.314
- This road is sometimes difficult with twists and turns,
- 00:26:33.314 --> 00:26:37.686
- But this darkness won't last for long.
- 00:26:37.686 --> 00:26:41.856
- There's a dawn on the horizon
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- And with this dawn comes a rush of hope.
- 00:26:44.726 --> 00:26:56.271
- Female announcer: jesus says that where two or three are
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- Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
- 00:27:02.744 --> 00:27:07.048
- We are all different.
- 00:27:07.048 --> 00:27:08.383
- We have different interests, different personalities,
- 00:27:08.383 --> 00:27:11.820
- Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
- 00:27:11.820 --> 00:27:15.557
- But here, we have a deep connection,
- 00:27:15.557 --> 00:27:19.160
- And you are welcome here.
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- This is harvest.
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