Greg Laurie - Tell Someone: When and Where To Share The Gospel

August 7, 2025 | S25 E188 | 27:40

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Tell Someone: When and Where To Share The Gospel | August 7, 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.
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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, the
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User's manual of life.
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So, we're gonna be talking about what the bible says and what god
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Wants to do in your life.
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Again, welcome, and god bless you.
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♪ this is the day ♪
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♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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♪ this is the day ♪
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♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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Greg laurie: god has put his people in the culture to
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Influence it, to make a difference.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: 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 the 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, i 'am with you even to the end of the age."
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♪♪♪
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Greg: you know, i think it's safe to say that we can assume
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Certain things about all people, no matter who they are.
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No matter how old they are, or young they are, if they're men,
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If they're women, where they live.
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These things are true of every person.
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Number one: everyone deep down inside, they're empty.
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Why is that?
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Well, the bible actually says that: "god made his creation,"
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That's us, "subject to emptiness."
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You might say that, we're sort of born
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With a hole in our heart.
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In fact, the bible says: "god has set eternity in our hearts."
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We're born with this sense that, there's more to life than what
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We're experiencing now.
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Everyone is empty.
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I'm talking about the guy cruising down the boulevard in
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The brand new bentley, i'm talking about the movie star,
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I'm talking about the person no one has ever heard of.
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I'm talking about the intellectual, i'm talking about
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Whoever, wherever, everyone is empty deep down inside.
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Number two: everyone's lonely.
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There's a deep loneliness inside of us and i think that's really
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When you get down to it, a loneliness for god himself.
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That's why when people get married and even when they have
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Children, they think that's gonna fill the void
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In their life and it doesn't.
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You know, when you're single, you say, "oh man, if i was
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Married, i'd be happy."
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And then you get married and you'd say, "oh man, if we just
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Had children, i'd be happy."
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And you have children and you'd say, "if we could just get rid
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Of these children, i'd be happy.
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And maybe i married the wrong person.
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If i married another person, i'd be happy."
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And on it goes, there's this loneliness really
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For god himself.
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Number three: everyone is guilty.
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We have a sense that when we do something wrong,
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Well, it's wrong.
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God's built that into us.
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It's sort of like the fire alarm.
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You know, i don't know about you, but in my house
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I have a smoke alarm.
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It always goes off at 3 o'clock in the morning.
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And usually it's because it needs a battery never
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Because it's smoke.
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Why is it always 3 in the morning, not 3 in the afternoon?
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But anyway, it's very sensitized and god gives us a conscience
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And we can harden our conscience, but we're born
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With a conscience and we know that we're guilty.
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We feel guilty because we're guilty because we've all sinned.
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Here's another thing that's true of every person:
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Everyone is afraid to die.
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There's a universal fear of death.
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We may laugh at death, we may be jokes about death, or we may
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Never talk about death, but deep down inside, we're aware of our
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Mortality and we're aware that one day, this life
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Will come to an end.
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Everyone is empty, everyone is lonely, everyone is guilty
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And everyone is afraid to die.
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But here's the good news, god has a solution
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To all of those things.
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First of all, christ can fill the void in a person's life when
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He himself comes and takes resonance inside of them.
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Christ can be that forever friend that will never leave you
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Or forsake you as he himself said, and wherever you go in
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Life, you know you're not alone, you know that god is with you
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And christ of course can forgive the sin that produces the guilt.
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So you get to the real issue instead of the mere symptom and
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Finally, if you put your faith in jesus christ, you can know
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That you will live forever.
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Jesus said: "i am the resurrection and the life, he
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That believes in me though he were dead, yet shall he live and
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Whosoever believes in me shall never die."
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Yeah, that's what we know about everyone and we have the answer.
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We've got to get the gospel to people and we need
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To get on with this.
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Not hesitate, not procrastinate, but engage people.
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Listen, the good news is only good if it gets there on time.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: you know, i remember the first time that i had the
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Opportunity to pray with someone to accept jesus christ.
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And i have to tell you, i was not prepared for success, in
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Fact i was prepared for failure.
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I was just a kid about 17 years old, heard the pastor say that
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We should go into all the world and share the gospel and we
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Should engage even strangers with the message of jesus christ
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And i thought, "oh man, i don't know if i could do that,"
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But one day i decided to try.
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I was armed with a little booklet called, the four
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Spiritual laws, looked very much like this one.
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And i was so young in my faith that i hadn't even memorized
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The contents of it yet.
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So i was walking along the beach down in newport beach,
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California and i saw a lady sitting on the beach and she was
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About the age of my mom and i thought, well, maybe she'll take
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Pity on me, you know.
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So, i walked up and i started to talk to her and you know,
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My voice started shaking.
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You know, when you get nervous and your voice shakes and you
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Can't control it, that was me that day.
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I was like, "hi, how are you?"
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And she says, "i'm fine."
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"hey, could i like talk to you just a little bit?"
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Remember i'm a teenager, i have hair hanging in my eyes.
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Use your imagination.
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By the way, i used to have an amazing wave of blonde hair,
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I do this all the time.
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Now the wave is gone and all i have left is just beach.
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It's kind of sad.
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So there i was on the beach, speaking of beaches and i asked
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Her if i could talk to her, she said, "go ahead."
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I said, "i wanna talk to you about jesus."
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She said, "go ahead."
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I literally started reading the little booklet.
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Okay.
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"the four spiritual laws copyright 1964."
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Anyway, law one: "man is sinful."
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Law two: and i went through the booklet and as i'm reading
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Through the booklet, i was thinking, "i really want this
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To be over with.
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I'm so embarrassed and i know this isn't going to work.
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I'm almost done."
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I'm thinking, "oh, this is just a train wreck.
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Why did i even do this?
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But i got to finish now."
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And she's just listening patiently.
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I really didn't even wanna make eye contact with her.
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And at the end, there was a little question in the booklet i
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Was holding that said, "is there any good reason why you should
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Not accept jesus christ right now?"
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So i read that and i said, "is there any good reason why you
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Should not accept jesus christ right now?"
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And i realized that was a question.
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I looked up at her and she said, "no."
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I said, "no?
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Does that mean you want to accept jesus christ right now?"
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And she said, "yes, i do."
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"oh, no, i hadn't planned for success."
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And so in the most reverent tone i could muster i said,
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"let's just bow our head for a word of prayer," saw
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The preacher do that, right?
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So she closes her eyes and i'm frantically searching this
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Booklet, like what do i do now?
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And i found a little prayer and i said, "just pray
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This prayer after me."
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And so i prayed the prayer, she prayed it out loud.
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Listen, to show you how small my faith was still, even as i'm
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Praying the prayer i'm thinking, "this isn't going to work."
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But you know what?
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At the end of the prayer, she said, "something just happened
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To me."
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And i said, "yeah, something happened to me too."
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Here's what i discovered.
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I discovered that, god could use a nobody to reach somebody else.
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I mean, i didn't have any great gifts.
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I just was a young kid who heard that i was supposed
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To go share my faith.
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I wasn't a preacher, i wasn't raised in a preacher's home,
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I just started reading the bible for myself, but i realized god
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Could use me and listen, god can use you too.
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We overcomplicate this thing called evangelism.
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We get all uptight about it and get all tied up and knots over
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It and i think we need to just realize that we're just one
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Beggar telling another beggar where to find food.
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So i wanna encourage you to look for an opportunity to share your
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Faith because you might find a person you would think would
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Never respond would indeed respond
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And put their faith in jesus.
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That'll be the greatest day of their life and you know what?
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It'll be one of the greatest days of yours as well.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: let's look at a text together, acts chapter 16.
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You don't know where that is, it's right
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After acts chapter 15.
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This is a story of paul and silas in a roman dungeon.
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Prisons are bad today, but, man, prisons
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In the first century, hellholes.
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And why were paul and silas put in prison?
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Because they preached the gospel.
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And they were put under the control of a roman guard that
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Was especially cruel.
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We read in acts 16 verse 23: "they were severely beaten, and
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They were thrown into prison and the jailer was ordered to make
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Sure they didn't escape."
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So he took no chances, but "put them into the inner dungeon and
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He clamped their feet in the stocks.
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But around midnight, paul and silas were praying and singing
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Hymns to god, and the other prisoners were listening."
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Did you get that?
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They've been beaten, they've been whipped.
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They've had their legs fastened in stocks spread apart to cause
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Excruciating pain, put in the most unsanitary, horrific
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Environment imaginable and at midnight, paul and silas started
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Singing praises to god.
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And the other prisoners were listening.
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And by the way, this phrase, others were listening could be
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Translated, they listened with pleasure.
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They were listening with pleasure.
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I don't know if paul and silas had done like a little two part
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Harmony, you know, probably not.
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Is just that they were singing songs to god at midnight and a
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Mighty earthquake comes, shakes the foundations of the prison.
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The walls come crashing down, all the prisoners are free.
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The roman soldier see what's happening, he pulls out his
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Sword, his short sword, and he's ready to pierce it into his body
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Because the penalty for losing a prisoner was death.
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He thought, "i might as well just kill myself right now."
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He's ready to thrust his sword into himself.
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And paul stops him and says, "stop.
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Don't kill yourself. we're still here."
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And i love what happens next in this story, acts 16 verse 30.
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"so this hardened jailer could not believe
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His ears or his eyes.
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He was so moved by this and the powerful testimony of paul
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And silas rejoicing.
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Before this, he was ready to believe there, right on the spot
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And he said, what must i do to be saved?"
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Guess what just happened?
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They earned the right to preach the gospel by the way
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That they lived.
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And that's what we need to do.
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We need to earn the right to get the audience.
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We need to earn the right to start the conversation.
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But here's the key, once you've earned the right, make sure you
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Have that conversation because sometimes we just drop
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The ball here.
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We're like, live the life we're godly people, we're a fantastic
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Representative of jesus and someone else says, "so well,
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What's, what is it about you?"
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"well, i just believe in good wholesome family values."
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Really? that's lame.
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You believe in the bible and jesus christ has come and
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Changed your life and that's why you have this new value system.
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Don't chalk it up to family values.
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Tell them what you really believe.
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See being that good example, open the door and this
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Is a reminder that we are called to go preach the gospel.
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And i know you choke on the word preach because you think the
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Word preach means yell, right?
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When you think of preach, preach.
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Guess what?
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You can preach quietly.
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Preaching just means proclaim the gospel.
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You know, when you talk to somebody, you don't have to yell
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At them.
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That, it's not like you're a preacher in a stadium.
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"hello, how are you today? good to see you.
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God bless."
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What are you doing? just talk to them.
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"hey, how's the going?"
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Engage them in conversation.
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Once we've earned the right to share our faith,
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We have to verbalize our faith.
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Romans 10 ask the question, "how will they hear
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Unless someone tells them?"
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That's why this series is called, tell someone.
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How will they hear unless someone tells them?
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Then in 1 corinthians 1:21 it says: "since in the wisdom of
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God the world through its wisdom did not come to know god.
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God was pleased."
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Listen, "to the foolishness of the message preached
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To save those who believe."
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Not through foolish preaching, but the foolishness
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Of the message preached.
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I do not know why god chooses to use someone as flawed as me.
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I don't know why god chooses to primarily reach this world
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Through verbal communication.
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It seems like the lord could just roll the clouds back
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And poke his face through and say,
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"hi, earth, i'm god, and you aren't.
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Why don't you believe in me right now?"
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That would be pretty persuasive.
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Or the lord could raise up an army of mighty angels,
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Appearing before people and telling them to come to jesus,
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But he hasn't chosen to do that as his primary way
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Of reaching lost people.
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Maybe he could have done it through--
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Hey, could've used animals.
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Remember balaam's donkey talked?
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That'd be cool, talking animals sharing the gospel.
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You know, you're feeling down, your dog walks up to you, you
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Pet them, and your dog just says, you know, "[barks].
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Have you ever considered jesus christ?"
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"what?
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You just talked."
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A cat would never do that, it's--
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Even if a cat could talk, wouldn't share the gospel.
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God didn't choose animals, god didn't choose angels,
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God didn't choose to open the heavens up
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And poke his face through.
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God chose to reach people through people.
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Listen, the primary way god chooses to reach other people is
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Through people like you and specifically through the
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Verbalization of the gospel.
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He wants us to tell someone.
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Let's say you were a brilliant scientist who
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Somehow got cancer.
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So you dedicated your time and your efforts and your
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Considerable intellect to finding a cure.
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And after years of study and work and experiments and so
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Forth, you found a cure.
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A single pill that could be taken at one time and cancer
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Would go away almost immediately.
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Oh, i wish someone would find that cure.
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But how awesome would that be?
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Now let's just say, you were that person, you found the cure
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To cancer, all a person has to do, is take this pill.
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What would you do?
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Well, i hope you would shout it from the rooftops.
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What would you say?
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"well, i'm never really comfortable talking
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To strangers."
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Yeah, that may be, but this is kind of a big deal.
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So can you kind of get over yourself and your discomfort and
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Actually share this good news with other people?
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Listen, folks, we have something that's even better
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Than the cure for cancer.
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We have the cure for death.
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We have the only hope through jesus christ.
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We must tell others.
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We've already talked about who should share the gospel and who
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We should share with and where we should share it.
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When should we share the gospel?
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Short answer.
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Whenever, whenever.
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I wish i could tell you that god wakes me up every morning and
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Speaks to me audibly.
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When i see preachers say, "god spoke to me audibly."
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I don't believe them.
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Well, he doesn't speak to me audibly every day,
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"good morning, greg."
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Your mission, should you decide to accept it?
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Cue the mission impossible thing,
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"dund, do, dund, dund dund."
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You're gonna go today to a gas station at 1102 and there you
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Will find a man named josh smith, pumping gas.
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Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to engage josh
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With the gospel, this message will self-destruct in 5 seconds,
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"ssh ssh pu pu," you know.
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That's not how god speaks to me.
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It's usually i get my car and i'm driving, all of a sudden,
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A little light goes on.
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They call it an idiot light.
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Means i'm low in fuel.
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"uh, i think i'll get gas."
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So i drive over to the gas station, no audible voices,
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I'm just pumping gas waiting.
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There's some guy pumping gas in his car.
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Say, "how's it going?"
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"it's going good, how's it going with you?"
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Oh, by the way, his name is josh.
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See a lot of times i find, i just walk into these things,
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We call them coincidences, but i call them providence.
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I believe that, "the steps of a righteous man are ordered
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By the lord," that's what the bible says.
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So when you get up in the morning, you say,
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"lord guide my steps and lead me.
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I want to be ready to share the gospel."
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♪♪♪
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Greg: we know that jesus has called us to go into all the
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World to preach the gospel.
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We don't do a great job of that in most cases.
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One of the reasons we give, or maybe i should say excuse is,
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"well, what if i share the gospel with someone and they
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Reject what i'm saying?"
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Well, that's always an option and to be candid with you,
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That will happen.
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But maybe one of our real concerns is, "what if i share
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The gospel with somebody and they want to accept christ?"
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See, i think sometimes our greater fear is one of success
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Than it is of failure because if you share jesus christ with
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Someone and they wanna believe in him, now you are there to
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Follow up on them and help them to grow in their faith and you
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Need to be an example for them.
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And i think a lot of times we don't like that because that
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Means we're gonna have to be a, well, good example.
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But that's part of sharing the gospel in a way you need to earn
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The right to be heard.
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First you live it and then that the door for you to share it.
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You know, it's interesting that jesus said, we are to be both
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Salt and light in the world.
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What does that mean?
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Well, in the first century, the people jesus gave that statement
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To originally that, salt was used as a preservative.
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They would rub it into meat to preserve it, so we as christians
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Are here to stop the spread of evil in the culture, but there
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Was another use of salt and that of course
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Is to stimulate thirst.
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Sort of like when you go in the movie theater and you buy those
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Giant bags of popcorn, by the way, why do those have
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To be so big?
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And then you're thirsty, they're probably over salted and you
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Know, the cokes are like the size of a barrel.
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That's ridiculous but, salt stimulates thirst.
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And i think of a man or a woman is really walking with god,
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Their very lifestyle will stimulate thirst in others.
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And the best question an unbeliever can ask you is,
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What makes you different?
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Why are you happy?
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What is this joy that i see in you?
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And then that opens a door for you to share your faith.
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So, sometimes people say, well, i think i wanna just be a good
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Example and i believe in lifestyle evangelism not in
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Confronting people with the gospel.
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Well, actually the bible tells us we're to do both.
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We are to be a good example and we are to share our faith.
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It's not one or the other, it's both end.
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You know, billy graham once said, "we are the bibles the
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World is reading.
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We are the creeds the world is heeding.
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We are the sermons the world is needing."
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You know, it's been said that christians are walking epistles
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Written by god and read by men.
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Listen, you're the only bible some people
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Are ever going to see.
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So what kind of example are you?
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Listen to this, some people are gonna actually develop their
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Whole opinion of god based on you, his representative.
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You say, "well, that's too much pressure."
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Hey, sorry, deal with it.
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God has called us to be his examples
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In this very dark world.
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But listen to this, jesus said, "all power is given unto me in
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Heaven and earth.
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Go therefore into all the world and preach the gospel."
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That means we need to proclaim the good news.
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Of course, that's what gospel means.
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You know, when i was a kid, i used to be a paper boy, i had a
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Really cool bike, by the way, it was schwinn stingray, banana
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Seat, small front tire, big slick tire on the back and best
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Of all, i had a stick shift on my bicycle.
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It was sort of a 4runner to my harley.
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Well anyway, i'd get on my little schwinn stingray bicycle
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With the stick shift, put my bags on and load them with
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Papers and cruise to the neighborhoods and throw those
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Papers under front lawns, under porches.
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You know, i got pretty good with the little sideway swipe,
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Clearing the heads, that sort of thing.
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But here was the thing, i was a paper boy.
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My job was to deliver the news.
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My job was not to write the news, my job was not
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To make the news, my job was to deliver the news.
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The same is true for us, we're just delivery boys and girls.
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Our job is to bring the gospel to people.
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I don't need to add to it, i don't need to take away from it,
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I certainly should never edit it, i need to give the whole
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Gospel to as many people as i possibly can.
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Who do i take that gospel message to?
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Well, jesus said, "whosoever will believe,
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Let him believe in me."
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So whosoever qualifies.
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So who would that include?
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Basically everybody.
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The bible also says that we are to, "be instant in season
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And out of season."
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Or as another translation puts it, "be on duty at all times."
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So i'm to take the gospel to whosoever, whenever.
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But where should i do it?
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Jesus said, "go into all the world and preach the gospel."
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So that means wherever.
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I'm to go to whosoever, whenever, wherever i can.
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That's the message he's called us to bring.
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That's the good news this culture needs to hear.
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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, he died on a cross, he rose again
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From the dead.
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Why?
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Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
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Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
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I don't wanna be a religious person, i don't think you wanna
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Be one either, i'm talking about relationship with god.
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Jesus who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
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And he knocks and he says, if you'll hear his voice and open
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The door, he will come in.
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Question.
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Have you asked jesus christ to come and live inside of you?
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You might say, "well, i think so, 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 wanna 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
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Of your heart.
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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 and
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Answering this prayer.
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In jesus 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 and i would love
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To send to you at no charge, something called,
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The new believer's bible.
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It's a very friendly translation of the new testament, you'll
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Find very understandable and it's filled with hundreds of
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Notes that i wrote that will encourage you in this commitment
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You've just made to follow jesus.
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Let me send that to you at no charge and let me be the first
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To say to you, "congratulations and welcome
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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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