Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Tell Someone: How To Share The Gospel

August 12, 2025 | S25 E192 | 27:40

Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Tell Someone: How To Share The Gospel | August 12, 2025

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Greg laurie: welcome to "harvest" with greg laurie.
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This tv show is all about helping you get to know god
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Better because god loves you, and god has a plan for you,
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And god wants to transform your life.
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And he's told us everything you need to know about him
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And life in general in this book, the bible,
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The user's manual of life.
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So we're gonna be talking about what the bible says and
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What god wants to do in your life.
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Again, welcome and god bless you.
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♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪
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♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪♪
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Greg: god has put his people in the culture to influence it,
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To make a difference.
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God is not calling us as believers to isolate, but rather
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To infiltrate, to influence.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
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Baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the
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Holy spirit, teaching them to observe, "all things that i have
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Commanded you and lo am with you even to the end of the age."
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Greg: you know, jesus didn't say that the whole world
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Should go to church.
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He said that the church should go to the whole world.
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Sometimes christians want to get away from non believers,
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Not to have any contact with non believers.
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But listen, jesus did not call us to isolate, he called us to
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Infiltrate, even more, to permeate, to be salt and light
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In our culture.
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And i think we need to look for those opportunities to engage
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People with the message of the gospel because you never know
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When one of those opportunities is gonna come our way.
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Greg: you know, after i became a christian,
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I had a friend named gregg.
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We grew up together.
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We went to elementary school together.
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We got into trouble together.
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We collected reptiles together.
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Don't ask me why.
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We were really into snakes and lizards and stuff.
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But after i became a christian, i said to gregg, "now, don't
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Worry about me, gregg, because i'm not gonna turn into one of
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Those crazy jesus freaks," thank you, "that you see out
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On the streets.
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I'm gonna be more conservative, more subdued."
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And i actually said these words, "gregg--" and by the way,
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He spelled his name with two gs instead of one like i do.
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I said, "gregg, the last thing you'll ever see is greg laurie
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Walking down the street with a cross around his neck
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And a bible saying things like, 'praise the lord.'
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That's not gonna happen."
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Gregg seem reassured.
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So fast forward about maybe three weeks to a month.
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I'm so excited about my faith that i've actually gone out on
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The streets, and i'm engaging strangers in conversations about
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Jesus christ.
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So one day, i'm walking on the street, and who do i see walking
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Toward me but gregg.
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And as i get closer, we recognize each other.
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And before i could stop myself, i said, "praise the lord."
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But wait, around my neck, i had a cross, and i was,
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Yes, carrying a bible.
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We both laughed because the one thing i said i would never do,
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I was actually doing.
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It was a classic moment.
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It occurred to me, wow, what if i could lead gregg
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To christ right now?
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And so i started sharing the gospel with him,
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And he was really listening.
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And i'm just praying as i'm talking, "lord, just give me
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The right words for gregg.
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I pray he'll come to believe in you right now."
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So we're mid conversation, i feel like i'm making
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Some progress.
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And seemingly out of nowhere, some guy appears,
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And he's been eavesdropping on our conversation.
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Now, this guy worked in a store nearby.
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We used to call him, in these days, head shops.
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You know, they sell drug paraphernalia.
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Anyway, he's eavesdropping on our conversation and he says
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To me, "wait a second, christian," addressing me.
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"i have a few questions for you."
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And i turned to him thinking, yes, like, i've been a christian
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For a few weeks now.
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I can handle anything.
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And this guy fires off like five hard questions.
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I don't even remember what they were, in particular, but i'm
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Sure they were, "how could a god of love allows suffering?
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How can you say jesus christ is the only way to god?"
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Et cetera.
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You've heard them.
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And as he's hitting me with these questions, i realized
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I don't have the answers.
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Gregg, who's listening to all this says, "yeah, laurie,
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What about that?"
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And i said, "i don't know."
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I was humiliated.
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And the whole conversation with gregg came to a screeching halt,
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And i walked away from that moment thinking man,
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I really blew it.
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And i realized at that point, i needed to start reading
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The bible more, and i needed to be prepared.
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You know, over in 1 peter 3:15, it says that we're to set the
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Lord apart in our heart and be able to give to every man an
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Answer, concerning the hope that is inside of us with meekness
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And fear or reverence."
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And the idea of that is, don't come off as a know-it-all, but
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You need to know some things, and you need to be able to
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Answer the hard questions that are gonna be coming your way.
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And actually, this phrase that is used by peter when he says,
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"give to every man in answer," it's from a greek word
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"apologia," we get our english word "apologetic" from it.
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It doesn't mean that we apologize for our faith.
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Rather, it's a legal term that speaks of giving a legal
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Defense, as in a court of law.
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Every christian needs to know what the bible says.
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Every christian needs to be prepared to give answers
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When people ask them.
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So i learned a lot from that little experience, and i decided
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To start studying my bible a whole lot more.
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You know, in the bible is an amazing story of jesus
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Sharing the gospel with a burned-out, immoral woman.
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She's usually called the woman at the well.
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And it's a story of how he had an appointment with her on a hot
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Afternoon at 12 o'clock.
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Not only was jesus the savior of the world, not only was he god
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Walking among us, but jesus christ
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Was the master communicator.
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He shows us how to build a bridge to a listener.
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And listen, that is our objective
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When we're sharing our faith.
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It's to build the bridge, not burn the bridge.
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It's to win the soul, not just win the argument.
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And here's what you need to know when you're talking to people
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About jesus christ.
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You know, you want to establish contact with them.
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You want to get a conversation going.
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This is a dialogue.
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It's not a monologue.
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So take time to listen.
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And i'll let you know a little secret.
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Everybody's favorite subject is themselves.
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I mean, what's the most popular kind of photography today?
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Selfies.
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And we even have selfie sticks to take pictures
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Of ourself wherever we are.
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People love to talk about themselves.
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So that's what you should do, engage a person,
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Ask him a few questions, get to know them, and listen.
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And then appropriately and specifically bring the message
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Of the gospel to the person you're speaking with.
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The bottom line, we want to get them to the greatest story ever
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Told, and the greatest story ever told, it's on right here
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In the bible, and it's called the gospel.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: here in john 4, we see jesus with a woman.
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Now, we call her the woman at the well.
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We don't know her name.
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I'm sure she had one.
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But this woman really messed up her life.
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She was not an educated woman.
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I don't think she had any understanding of scripture.
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She made a lot of bad decisions and most of them
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Were involving men.
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In fact, this girl was married and divorced five times.
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Now, that's pretty radical for back then.
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Nowadays, not so radical.
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In that day, scandalous.
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And that's why she came to the well at 12 in the afternoon
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When the sun was at its hottest because no one wanted
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To hang out with this woman who went to the well.
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So she encounters jesus here.
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And i love the way he engaged her.
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Frankly, this woman at the well reminds me of my own mother,
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Except my mom beat her.
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My mom was married and divorced seven times, but she was
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Searching just like the woman at the well.
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I want you to see how jesus reached out to her, so we can
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Learn how to be a bridge instead of a barrier to people coming
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To christ, how to be a stepping stone,
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Instead of a stumbling block.
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And here's jesus engaging this woman.
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Let's read about it.
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John 4, starting in verse 3.
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"he left judaea, and departed again into galilee, but he
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Needed to go through samaria."
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You might want to underline that statement, "he needed to go
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Through samaria.
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So he came to a city of samaria, which is called sychar, near the
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Plot of ground that jacob gave to his son joseph.
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Now jacob's well was there.
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And jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey,
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Sat by the well.
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It was about the sixth hour," that's 12 noon, "and a woman of
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Samaria came to draw water.
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Jesus said to her, 'give me a drink' for his disciples had
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Gone away into the city to buy food.
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Then the woman of samaria said to him, 'how is it that you,
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Being a jew, would ask a drink from me, a samaritan woman?'
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For jews have no dealings with samaritans.
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Jesus answered and said, 'if you knew the gift of god,
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Who it is that says to you, 'give me a drink,'
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You would have asked him
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And he would have given you living water."
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Evangelism jesus's style.
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Doing it the way christ did it starts with a burden.
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We've already alluded to this.
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Verse 4 it says, "he needed to go through samaria."
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Little background, jews and samaritans,
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They didn't like each other.
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In fact, they actually hated each other.
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That's why the samaritan woman said, "why would you, a jew, ask
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For a drink of water from me, a samaritan?
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Don't you know, we don't deal with each other?"
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There was a strong hatred and a cultural prejudice between these
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Peoples, but jesus needed to go.
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By the way, this was not the shortest route
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To his destination.
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He effectively went out of his way to meet this woman.
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Why?
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Because in the counsels of eternity, it was decided that a
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Burned-out, immoral woman was gonna meet jesus on that day.
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She had an appointment with god.
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You know, there are times when you will be out and about your
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Business, and you're gonna walk smack dab
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Into the middle of god's will.
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And you're gonna come across a person that has an appointment
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With god, and god wants to reach that person through you.
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So here's jesus, he sees her sitting there at the well.
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And it's a good reminder to us that we need to overcome
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Our prejudices and our bias.
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Sometimes god may lead us to go to someone
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That's different than us.
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They're older.
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They're younger.
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They're a different race.
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They're a different social economic background.
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Who cares?
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If god leads you to go to that person, go to that person.
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Male announcer: "revelation: a book of promises,"
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By greg laurie.
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The word "revelation" means unveiling.
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God's desire is to reveal, not conceal.
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And this book unveils pictures of the spirit world,
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Great cataclysmic events in store for the planet,
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And the coming antichrist.
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But as greg laurie explains, the primary objective
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Of this book isn't to reveal the antichrist.
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It's to reveal jesus christ and his soon coming.
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Request "revelation" by greg laurie
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When you give today.
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Greg: i remember shortly after i was converted, i felt
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Very strong that the lord was leading me to only share
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The gospel with really cute girls.
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I was convinced this was right.
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It was a great way to meet girls.
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Well, that didn't last long.
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The lord said, "what are you doing?"
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You know, that was obviously not from him.
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But we need to go to people that are different than us,
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Leave our comfort zone.
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If we want to evangelize jesus style, we need to use tact,
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T-a-c-t, tact.
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Jesus the master evangelist used something that many christians
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Seriously lack, and that is tact.
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Other words for tact are diplomacy, sensitivity.
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One person defined tact as skill and grace
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In dealing with others.
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Isaac newton said, quote, "tact is the art of making a point
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Without making an enemy."
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I like that, making a point without making an enemy.
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I can state truth in a loving way, even if the truth
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Is rather harsh at times.
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We'll deal with this more when we get to our essential message.
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But you can do it in a friendly way.
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But a lot of times we'll come up to a person and say crazy stuff
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To them like, "hey, did you know you're going to hell?"
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Wow, what a great conversation starter, way to build a wall
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Instead of a bridge.
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I've seen that, that was not jesus style, and that should not
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Be ours either.
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You know, when i present the gospel in a service
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Or in a crusade, it's a monologue effectively.
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I'm standing behind a pulpit, and i'm proclaiming the
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Truth of god's word to people.
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It's a monologue.
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But when i engage people one-on-one, it's a dialogue.
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I don't walk around with a pulpit on wheels.
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I don't know if you know that.
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Take it to the market, push it along, you know, and grab the
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Bread and the eggs and the milk.
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And "oh, hi, hello there," maybe buy the bottle water.
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"if you drink of this water, you'll thirsty again,"
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Something like that.
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I don't do that.
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When i talk to people one-on-one,
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I don't project like this, "hey!"
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You know, i just talk to them like a regular person.
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It's a dialogue.
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And in most cases, when we share our faith, it's gonna be more of
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A dialogue, not a monologue.
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We're not supposed to be evangelism machines.
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We're supposed to have give-and-take and listen to the
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Person we're speaking with.
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Evangelism jesus style means we stay focused.
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We stay focused.
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Now, this woman tried to get jesus off of the subject.
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She says in john 4:20, "our fathers worshipped on this
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Mountain and you jews say in jerusalem is
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The place of worship where one ought to worship."
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Now, that interesting because there's almost a little bit
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Of inflammatory rhetoric here.
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A samaritan saying, "you jews."
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Jesus could say, "what'd you just say?
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What you talking about, willis?"
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You know, he wouldn't go there with her.
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She's getting into some debate, a debate that's been going
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On for years.
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Where should god be worshiped in samaria in their temple
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Or in jerusalem in the temple god established?
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Well, to the point, the correct answer was jerusalem.
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Jesus could have debated that with her but it's interesting
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How he sidesteps the issue and he says to her, "listen,
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God is a spirit and those that worship him must worship him
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In spirit and in truth.
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You know, interesting topic.
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I don't want to get into that.
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And he gets back to the core issue.
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I bring this up because sometimes you're sharing
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Your faith, and a person will interrupt you and say,
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"yeah, but wait a second.
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How could a god of love send someone to hell?
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Wait, wait, wait, what about the person
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Who's never heard the gospel?
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Will god send them to hell?
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Wait, wait, there's so many contradictions in the bible."
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Okay, what do you do?
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Okay, to the best of your ability, answer the question.
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I like to say to a person who says there's contradictions in
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The bible is if i have a bible say, "well, i'm got a bible
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Right here.
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Why don't you show me one?"
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They don't know a contradiction in the bible.
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Those are just defense mechanisms they've learned to
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Make you go away.
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But maybe they'll bring up something, answer it,
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If you can.
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If you don't, tell them you'll get back to him but then get it
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Back to the main subject again.
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And that's what jesus does.
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He brings it back to the main subject
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So she will not get off track.
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Now, this woman did believe this day.
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This woman had her life transformed by jesus christ
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Because he entered her world.
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He built a bridge to her.
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He lovingly and clearly gave her the answers
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She had been searching for.
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I mentioned a few moments ago that she reminded me
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A lot of my own mother.
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My mom, charlene, was married and divorced seven times,
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As i pointed out.
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Now, she was raised in a christian home by my
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Grandparents, charles and stella mcdaniel, and they went to
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Church three times a week.
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So my mom kind of had a drug problem.
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Her parents drug her to church, sunday morning, sunday night,
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And wednesday night.
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And then they would invite people from the church
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Over for sunday dinner.
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So my mom was around this her whole time, and she was
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A beautiful, young girl.
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And she wanted to get out of that house.
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She was a rebel in her heart.
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And so she couldn't wait.
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And one day she found some young man who was willing to marry her
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And my aunt willie, her sister helped her pack her suitcase.
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And my mom ran off with this young guy and eloped,
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And she never looked back.
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And that marriage quickly ended.
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Then she moved on to her next marriage and to her next one.
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And so she was already on the trajectory.
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She was a major alcoholic, but because of her major beauty, she
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Was never at a shortage for men.
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Well, somewhere in her escapade, she had a fling with some sailor
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In long beach, and greg laurie was conceived.
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I wasn't planned.
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I'm so glad she didn't go down to planned parenthood
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And listen to them.
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That's another subject for another day.
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But she brought me to term.
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Obviously, i was born, but she didn't really want to raise me.
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She was too busy living her crazy life.
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And so i lived, for a time, with my grandparents.
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I went to military school.
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I would live with an aunt over here and back with my mom
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For a while.
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So now fast forward, and her story is reaching
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A predictable end.
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All that drinking has taken its toll.
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One night she got in her '65 mustang and was cruising down
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Jamboree boulevard in newport beach and jumped over the
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Divider and had a head-on collision with another car.
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It almost killed her.
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Her beautiful face was now somewhat disfigured.
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You would have thought that would have been the wake-up call
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And she would have stopped drinking.
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No, she continued to drink and carry on.
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Now fast forward, and my mom is 70 years old,
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And she looks like she's 90.
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She's had--she's having kidney failure.
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She's having to get dialysis three times a week,
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And she was miserable.
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So the lord spoke to my heart one day
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And to go share with her.
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Now, trust me, i'd shared with my mom's so many times.
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And whenever we would talk about the gospel, here's what she
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Would say, "i don't want to talk about it.
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I don't want to talk about it."
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She'd just terminate the conversation,
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"i don't want to talk about it."
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But one night some years earlier, she had called me
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Like 2 in the morning.
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I answered the phone.
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She says, "greg, it's your mother."
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She was drunk, obviously.
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She said, "if i commit my life to jesus christ, will you sing,
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'just as i am'?"
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I said, "mom, i will sing anything you want if you will
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Commit your life to jesus christ."
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See, she's harkening back to her days in the baptist church
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'cause that's a song they would sing
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When invitations were extended.
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But we would never have this conversation, so one day
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The lord placed it on my heart to go have the conversation
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With her again.
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I told my wife cathy, "i've gotta go see my mom now."
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She agreed, we prayed.
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I went over, i sat down at the table.
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I said, "mom, i want to talk to you now about your soul."
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She says, "i don't want to talk about it."
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I said, "today we're gonna talk about it.
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Okay, we're gonna finish this conversation."
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I just laid it out and, again, told her what it meant
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To follow christ.
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And much to my shock, she responded and ultimately made a
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Recommitment to jesus christ.
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That's the good news.
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We're thankful for that.
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How was i to know that one month later, she would die?
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I had such hope.
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I thought, oh, my mom has finally come to the lord.
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It's gonna be so great having her in the church and watching
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Her grow spiritually.
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No, the lord spoke to my heart 'cause she was right at the edge
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Of eternity.
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Sometimes god will speak to you, "go have that conversation."
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"oh, i don't want to.
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It's so awkward.
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It's so hard," especially with family members, am i right?
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They're the hardest to reach, but you need to do it.
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You don't know when you're gonna die, and you don't know when the
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Person that god is leading you to speak to is going to die.
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So these are things that need to be done, and we need to listen
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To the leading of the holy spirit.
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Greg: again, as the bible says, be on duty at all times
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Because you never know when an opportunity
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Is gonna come your way.
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You know, jesus said of himself, "the son of man
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Has come to seek and save that which was lost."
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He was always looking for that person that needed
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To hear the gospel.
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Jesus himself told the story of the shepherd that went searching
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For the lost sheep.
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He's always searching.
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He's always looking.
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You and i need to do the same.
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And i would venture to say if you start thinking that way,
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Even more, if you start praying that way, "lord, lead me today,"
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You're gonna find opportunities come right to you.
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They'll drop right in your lap and before you know it,
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You'll have the privilege of leading someone to jesus christ.
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So let's look for those opportunities tomorrow,
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And let's get out there and tell someone.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: so the mission is clear.
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We're commanded to go into all the world and preach the gospel,
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To share the good news, anytime, anywhere.
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So go to your family, go to your neighborhood, go to your
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Workplace, go to your sphere of influence, go and tell someone.
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Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and you have seen
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Your need for jesus christ.
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Jesus christ is the son of god who came from heaven
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To this earth.
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He was born in a manger.
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He died on a cross.
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He rose again from the dead, why?
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Because he loves you, and he wants a relationship with you.
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Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
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I don't want to be a religious person.
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I don't think you want to be one either.
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I'm talking about relationship with god.
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Jesus, who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
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And he knocks and he says if you'll hear his voice and open
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The door, he will come in.
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Question, have you asked jesus christ to come
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And live inside of you?
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You might say, "well, i think so.
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I'm not sure."
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Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle of the
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Night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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I'm sure you would.
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And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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You will know.
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And if you don't know, maybe he has not come in yet.
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He's just a prayer away.
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All you need to do is say, "jesus, i want this relationship
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With you.
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I want you to forgive me of my sin.
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I want to go to heaven when i die."
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Would you like to do that?
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Would you like christ to come into your life?
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If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me?
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You can pray it out loud or you can pray it in the quietness of
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Your heart, but this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ
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To be your savior and lord.
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Pray this with me now.
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"lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner, but i know that you're
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The savior who died on the cross for my sin
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And rose again from the dead.
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Now come into my life.
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I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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Thank you for hearing this prayer
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And answering this prayer.
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In jesus's name, amen."
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Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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If so, i want you to know in the authority of scripture that
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Christ himself has come to live inside of you.
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And i would love to send to you at no charge
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"the new believer's bible."
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It's a very friendly translation of the new testament
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You'll find very understandable, and it's filled with hundreds of
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Notes that i wrote that will encourage you in this
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Commitment you've just made to follow jesus.
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And let me be the first to say to you,
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Congratulations and welcome to the family of god.
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Male announcer: "revelation: a book of promises,"
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By greg laurie.
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Why study revelation?
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The word "revelation" means unveiling.
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God's desire is to reveal, not conceal.
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And this book unveils pictures of the spirit world,
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Great cataclysmic events in store for the planet,
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And the coming antichrist.
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But as greg laurie explains, the primary objective
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Of this book isn't to reveal the antichrist.
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It's to reveal jesus christ and his soon coming.
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"revelation: a book of promises" is designed to help you see
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Jesus as the centerpiece, the star,
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And the focus of revelation.
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With this eminently practical guide, you can experience the
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Blessing promised to those who read, hear, and keep the words
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Of this prophetic book.
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After all, bible prophecy is not given to inflate our brains,
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But to enlarge our hearts.
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Request "revelation" by greg laurie
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When you give today.
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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.
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We are all different.
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We have different interests, different personalities,
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Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
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But here, we have a deep connection,
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And you are welcome here.
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This is harvest.
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