Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie

Greg Laurie - Tell Someone: Why Share The Gospel?

August 6, 2025 | 27:40

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Tell Someone: Why Share The Gospel? | August 6, 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: god has put his people in the culture
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To influence it, to make a difference.
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God is not calling us as believers to isolate,
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But rather 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
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That i have commanded you, and lo, i am with
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You, even to the end of the age."
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♪♪♪
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Greg: i'm in the hoboken terminal here in new jersey, and
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This is one of the cities, states i've lived in during my
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Childhood because my mom, well, she had this habit of getting
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Married and divorced a lot, seven times in total.
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So i lived in summit, new jersey; i lived in hawaii,
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I lived in california, so i had this turbulent
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Childhood, so i had to grow up fast.
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In many ways, i had to become a parent to my mother, and by the
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Ripe old age of 17, i felt like i was 70.
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I tried pretty much everything this culture has to offer to
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Make one supposedly happy, and i was empty inside, and i was
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Desperately searching for meaning and purpose in my life,
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And on my high school campus in newport beach, california,
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I came upon a bible study of christians and sat down close
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Enough to hear what they were saying but not so close that
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They would think i was joining up.
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I sort of eavesdropped, and i ended up hearing, for the first
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Time in my life, the gospel, and i believed that message,
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And as a result, i asked jesus christ to
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Come into my life, and he changed it.
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It wasn't long after that, that i realized i had to tell
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Someone about what god had done for me.
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The bible says, "if any man be in christ, he's
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An altogether different kind of person.
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The old things have passed away.
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Behold, everything becomes fresh and new."
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And then, one day, as a new christian, i read a passage in
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Scripture that's known as the great commission.
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Have you heard that?
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It's when jesus says, "go into all the world and preach the
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Gospel to every living creature."
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Yes, i'm talking about evangelism, and that's a word
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That makes a lot of christians cringe because we think, "oh,
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No, you mean actually go up to a complete stranger
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And talk about my relationship with god?
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I don't wanna do that." so you know what happens?
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The great commission, as we call it, becomes the great omission.
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Let me tell you something that might
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Surprise you, but i believe it's true.
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I think to not share my faith as a
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Follower of jesus christ can be a sin.
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You say, "now, greg, you're going too far there.
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It's not a sin." wait, though.
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There are sins of commission and omission, right?
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A sin of commission is when you do something you should not do.
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Listen, a sin of omission is when you don't do something you
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Should do, and the bible says, "to him that knows to do good
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And does not do it, to him, it is sin."
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Let's say that you were walking along the beach,
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And there was someone out there drowning in the
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Ocean, and you just kept walking.
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You didn't call for help.
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You didn't call 9-1-1.
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You just kept walking. would that be wrong?
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That would be criminal, really.
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And in the same way, it's even worse when we think of the fact
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That, every day, we walk by people that are drowning in
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Their sin, and we don't even take a break in our little
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Schedule to engage them with a message of the gospel.
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Did you know that 95% of all christians have
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Never led another person to christ?
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A very small percentage even attempt to
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Engage people with the gospel message.
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So, listen, i wanna help you to change
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That if that's the case in your life.
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Let me say something that may also surprise you.
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I believe evangelism can be fun. "'fun,' you say?"
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Yes, fun, because it's exciting to be used by god.
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And you know what?
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When god's looking for someone to use, he's not
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Looking for a qualified person.
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He's looking for an available person.
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God's not looking for ability.
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He's looking for availability.
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God doesn't call the qualified.
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Listen, he qualifies the called.
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That means that god can use you.
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He can use anyone to start talking to others about jesus
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Christ, but we've gotta get started, and that's what i wanna
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Talk to you in this series about how you can engage people, how
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You can reach people, and, yes, how you can lead
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People to jesus christ and experience some
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Of the greatest joy you've ever had in this life.
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Jesus said, "there is joy or happiness in heaven every time a
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Lost sinner believes, every time a sinner comes to repentance."
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So if there's happiness in heaven over a person believing,
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There can certainly be happiness on earth as well.
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Let's discover together how we can find the joy of sharing our
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Faith and how we can see others come to know jesus christ.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: sharing your faith can be an exciting experience.
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Telling others about jesus can be an adventure.
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Leading people to jesus can be one of the greatest
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Joys you've ever know, and dare i say it?
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Being used by god can be fun.
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That's right, fun, not a mere drudgery, not mere duty.
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It's a joy.
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It's a privilege.
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It's an opportunity.
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And listen to this, we're told in psalm 126:6, "those who go
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Out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of
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Joy, carrying their sheaves with them."
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And the idea, that is, i go there, and i sow my little
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Gospel seeds in the lives of people, and periodically the
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Lord will allow me to see a person come to christ, and that
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Brings great joy, not just on earth, but check this out.
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Every time a lost person believes in
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Jesus, there is applause in heaven.
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The bible says that there is joy in the presence of the angels
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Over every sinner that comes to jesus christ.
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And next to knowing christ myself, to me, the
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Greatest joy i know is seeing others come to
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Christ and then growing in their faith.
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John said, "i have no greater joy than to know my
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Children are walking in the truth."
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Such a joy.
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And then we are also told by jesus himself, "it's more
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Blessed to give than it is to receive."
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By the way, the word "blessed" could be translated, "happy."
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It's a happier thing to give than it is to receive.
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Now, you tell that to a kid, and they won't believe it.
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"no, to receive is happier."
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But as you get older, you discover
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The joy of giving, don't you?
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And it is a joy to give out the gospel to other people, and
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Here's the interesting thing about how god does this.
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He seems to go out of his way to find the least
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Qualified person to do this through.
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The last person you would ever expect to be a
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Spokesman for him is the one that god will choose.
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You know, i never wanted to be a public speaker.
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Can you believe me when i tell you that?
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My sole aspiration in life as a kid was to be a cartoonist, a
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Graphic designer, and my backup plan was start a pet shop.
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I just figured if that graphic thing
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Doesn't work, i like animals.
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You know, hey, i was only a kid, right?
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So when god started opening doors for me to speak publicly,
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I was the least likely person to ever do this, but the reason i
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Started doing it, because, before, i didn't have anything
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To say, but now i do, and you do too.
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You say, "oh, god couldn't use someone like me."
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God called moses, and here's what moses said.
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This just sounds like somethin' one of us would say today.
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Exodus 4, "moses pleaded with the lord,
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'lord, i'm not very good with words.
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I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.'
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God said, 'now go, and i'll be with you as you speak.
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I'll instruct you in what to say.'
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Moses says, 'please, lord, send someone else.'"
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And look at the people god used, how flawed they were.
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Noah got drunk.
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Abraham--man, he was just old.
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Jacob was a liar.
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Peter denied christ.
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The disciples fell asleep while praying and largely
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Abandoned him in his moment of need.
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Timothy had an ulcer, and lazarus was dead.
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So what's your excuse?
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See, god can use you.
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I mean, we just offer these excuses.
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They're not reasons. you know what an excuse is?
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It's a fancy lie dressed up for dinner.
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It's what we offer when we don't wanna do something.
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There are no good reasons.
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So listen to this, god is not looking for ability.
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He's looking for availability.
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God does not call the qualified.
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He qualifies the called. that means you.
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That means me. that means us.
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We can be used by god.
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And let me say somethin' else, we not only should fulfill the
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Great commission because christ has commanded us to and because
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People need to hear the gospel, but we should fulfill the great
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Commission so we don't stagnate spiritually.
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Let me say something else that might surprise you coming from
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A pastor, there can come a moment when, actually, you don't
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Need to go to even another bible study.
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You don't need to read another christian book.
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You don't need to attend another worship service.
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I'm not suggesting you cut back on those things.
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I'm just saying maybe there'll be a point in your life where
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You don't need to do that more as much as you need
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An outlet for the truth god has given you.
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See, the problem is, if you're always taking in
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And you're never giving out, you're gonna
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Reach a state of spiritual stagnation.
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This would be like a person saying, "i eat all the time,
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And i feel listless and lethargic."
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It's like, "dude, you need some exercise."
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And then, the same could be said of christians.
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We're just feeding on the word of god, taking in,
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Taking in, taking in, never giving out.
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That needs to change, or we might
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Find ourself in trouble spiritually.
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See, god does not give us his truth to hoard.
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Do we have any hoarders listening right now?
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I would say i'm a micro-hoarder.
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I like to keep stuff.
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If it's a drawing from my children or my
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Grandchildren, i save 'em and put 'em up my wall.
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I save a lot of things.
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My wife, she's the opposite. she throws everything away.
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One time, she was tryin' to put me in the trash can.
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I resisted, but, you know, she throws stuff away.
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But then there are people who are serious hoarders.
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I saw a program on tv about a person.
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They had so much stuff.
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It was floor-to-ceiling stuff in their home.
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Usually these people have a lot of cats too.
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I don't know what the connection is.
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Listen, ten cats, it's too many, okay, just--
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Five cat--really, one cat's too many.
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Okay, but, anyway, and then they hoard all this stuff, and in one
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Situation, they had to come in with some serious fumigation and
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Other things to clean this home up because food was rotting and
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Stuff was piling up, and that can be a picture of a christian,
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A well-fed bible student who loves the lord, takin' in,
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Takin' in, takin' in or, putting it
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Another way, hoarding and hoarding.
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God doesn't give you this truth for you to hoard.
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He gives you this truth to share.
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The other day, we were out having lunch with my son,
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Jonathan, his wife, brittni, and their kids, and so
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I gave to each of them a bag of chips.
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Christopher was enjoying his chips immensely.
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[munching sounds] and then his dad said,
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"christopher, can i have one of your chips?"
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What i love about kids is they don't mask their feelings.
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An adult would say, "sure," but all the while,
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We'd be saying, "i hate this, i hate this.
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Here, you can have a chip."
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Christopher's like--[groans]
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He, like, furrows his little brow, [groans].
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"christopher," jonathan says, "look at me, buddy.
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Give me a chip."
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[groans] it's just like torture for--"no, no."
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He has a whole bag. the bag's half as big as he is.
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"no."
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Finally reaches in, pulls out the most pathetic little chip.
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It's all broken.
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"here, dad."
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Jonathan says, "oh, give me a bigger chip."
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[moans] and he finally pulls out--
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You know, we're like that. we just mask it.
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Jesus said, "go into all the world and preach
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The gospel," but it starts with a burden.
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Effective sharing starts with caring.
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Greg: let me ask you a question,
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And be honest in your answer.
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Do you really care about people
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That don't know jesus christ yet?
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I know, the automatic christian answer is "oh, yes,
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I care about them," but do we really?
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Because, if we did, why do we not engage them
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More with the message of the gospel?
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Far too often, i think, we regard
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Nonbelievers as the enemy.
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They're not the enemy.
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In fact, the bible says that they're bound
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By the enemy--that's the devil--who has
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Blinded their eyes so they will not believe.
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No, we should not see them as enemies.
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We should see them as people that need jesus.
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In fact, i think we need to get mad.
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I don't mean get mad at non-christians.
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In fact, i've seen sometimes believers yell
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At people that don't know the lord.
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Now, that's not gonna reach anybody.
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I think we need to get mad at the sin that binds them.
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You know, the bible tells us in the book of acts, the 17th
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Chapter, that the apostle paul had his spirit stirred when he
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Saw that the whole city of athens was given over to
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Idolatry, and that phrase that's used there in the
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Bible, "his spirit was stirred," could be
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Translated, he was righteously indignant.
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I think we need to get angry, righteously, at the trap people
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Find themselves in, angry enough to take action.
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So let me ask you this question, are you a bridge, or are you a
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Barrier to people coming to christ?
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Are you a stepping stone, or are you a stumbling block?
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It's time for us, as christians, to infiltrate this world with
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The gospel as opposed to isolating.
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You know, sometimes christians wanna isolate into a subculture,
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And, you know, we eat in christian restaurants, and we
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Buy clothes made by christian people, and we talk about
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Christian things, and that's all great, but there has to be a
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Point where we go out and engage nonbelievers.
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Don't forget that jesus himself was
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Called the "friend of sinners."
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How can i ever reach someone if i don't engage them?
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So let's do everything we can to tell someone.
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Let's all get busy doing that right away.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: luke 15 has three primary movements in it.
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It shows how god views people who do not yet know him,
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And you might be surprised by what you read here.
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Jesus uses three metaphors showing god's love.
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First we have a shepherd who lost a sheep, verses 1 to 7.
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This is what he would look like.
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And in this story, jesus says, "god is like a father who has
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Two sons, and when one of the sons goes astray, he
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Desperately misses that son and longs for his return."
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You know the story of the boy.
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Comes to his dad, demanding his portion of the inheritance.
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He effectively says, "dad, you know,
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You're living way too long.
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I'm tired of waitin' for you to die.
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Just give me my part of the inheritance now, and let me go.
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And, amazingly, the dad acquiesces and gives the boy
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What he requests, and off that kid goes to a place far away,
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Ending up with hookers and booze and partying and all that kind
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Of stuff, and after a while, that boy spends all of his
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Money, and all of his friends that he had are gone with the
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Money, and he's actually feeding pigs, which is not a very kosher
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Thing for a good jewish boy to do, and he actually is thinking,
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"maybe i will eat the food that i'm feeding the pigs."
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And then it dawns on him, "this is stupid.
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This is ridiculous.
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I'm gonna go back to my father, and i'm gonna say, 'father,
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I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
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Just take me on as a hired hand.'"
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So back home the boy goes.
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Now, the guy was probably--he was probably older.
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Maybe his body was a little bowed with age.
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Maybe his body was ravaged with the bad
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Choices he had made in his lifestyle.
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He's going back home.
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Meanwhile, back at the ranch--it's almost like the
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Camera moves now from the boy, and we come to the father.
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This is called "the parable of the prodigal son," but it could
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Just as easily be called "the parable of the loving father,"
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For it's a story of how god loves us.
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Back at the ranch, there's dad sitting on the front porch,
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Maybe in his rocking chair, missing his boy.
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Periodically, he'd get up, walk into his son's room,
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Look at all the things hangin' on the wall,
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Say, "i miss that rascal of a kid.
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I wish he'd come home." maybe it's been years.
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Maybe it's been decades. we don't know.
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The story doesn't say, but he would
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Just long for that boy's return.
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He would sit out there and wait.
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One day, he's sittin' out there on the porch, and he sees a
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Familiar figure making his way down the path to the home.
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It's his boy, and the father is so excited.
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He bolts out of his chair and runs to his son and throws his
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Arms around him and kisses him and says, "rejoice with me.
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This is my son, who was dead and is alive again."
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The boy didn't even get to finish his speech,
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"father, i'm no longer worthy to be called your--"
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"yeah, forget that, you're my son.
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You've always been my son. welcome home."
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That's a picture of god. and here's the amazing thing.
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In this culture, it was considered
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Undignified for an older man to run,
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Not to mention the fact it's harder for an older man to run.
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I know this from personal experience,
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'cause i've tried running.
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You know, i can walk for a long distance, and i'm fine.
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And i'll say, "i'm gonna just do a little jog."
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I'm walking really fast.
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People tell me i walk really fast.
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But then i, "let's do a jog."
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I just--the moment i do this, i hate life.
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Just, everything's shaking and just misery, immediately misery.
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"oh, i hate--" go back to walking again.
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I have people that love to run, "oh, i just had a good run.
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What a great run." what are you, crazy?
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You had a great--"oh, crazy run, great run.
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Man, the endorphins were released."
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I've never had a single endorphin released in
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My life doing any kind of exercise.
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I have had the release of
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Endorphins eating hamburgers, however.
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It's undignified, fathers,
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Older gentlemen did not run in this culture.
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If jesus had not said this, we would
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Not even dare to suggest it.
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Jesus compares the father in heaven to a father who misses
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His son so badly, he's willing to lose his dignity, if you
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Will, to get to his son as quickly as possible.
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So here's my question for you, if that father was willing to
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Lose his dignity to engage his son, are you willing
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To lose yours to engage a nonbeliever?
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Greg: so here's my question for you, are you willing to lose
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Your dignity, so to speak, to engage someone with the gospel?
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Are you willing to leave your comfort zone?
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Are you willing to, well, go into all the world?
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Go into all your world and share the gospel?
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You know, the apostle paul said, "we warn everyone we meet, and
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We teach everyone we can all that we know
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About jesus christ," listen, "so we can bring
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Them to full maturity in christ."
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See, that really is the great commission.
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Jesus says, "go into all the world and preach the gospel,
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Making disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
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The father, son, and the holy spirit."
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So our objective, as christians, is to, by god's grace, lead
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People to jesus and then help them get on their feet
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Spiritually, get them growing, help them reach maturity, and
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Then go and do it again, and do it again, and do it again, and
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Do it for the rest of your life and encourage those you led to
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The lord to do the same thing, and through that
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Reproduction, we can reach the world, but
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You've gotta start with your world.
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You know, sometimes, people say, "i feel called by god, and i
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Wanna cross the sea for jesus as a missionary."
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Hey, why don't you start by crossing the street?
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All around you is a mission field.
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Jesus said, "lift up your eyes and look.
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The fields are white to harvest."
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But then he says, "the laborers are few."
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God is looking for someone to labor in the harvest.
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He's looking for someone like you.
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Let's not be guilty of the sin of omission because
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The bible tells us "to him that knows to do
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Good and does not do it, to him it is sin."
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Let's obey the lord, but understand also, as we obey the
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Lord, he will bless us, and there's joy as i shared earlier
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In sharing your faith, so let's get on with this.
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In fact, why don't we just pray together
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That god will help us to do our part?
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Let's all pray.
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Father, we acknowledge that we have not always taken
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Advantage of the opportunities that come our
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Way, sometimes that are dropped in our lap.
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Help us to, as jesus said, "lift up our eyes and see the harvest.
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Help us to see people as you see them.
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Help us to care enough to share.
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Use us, lord, we pray, to bring others into your kingdom.
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We ask this in jesus's name, amen.
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Hey, thanks for joining us for message
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One in the "tell someone" series.
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I'm confident, if you'll get to the end of the series and take
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These biblical principles and put 'em into action, that you
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Will lead other people to jesus christ.
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♪♪♪
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Greg: so the mission is clear, we're commanded to go
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Into all the world and preach the gospel to share the good
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News anytime, anywhere, so go to your family, go to your
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Neighborhood, go to your workplace, go to
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Your sphere of influence, go and tell someone.
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Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart
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And you have seen 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 in a cross.
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He rose again from the dead, why?
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Because he loves you and he wants
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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
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And open 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, i'm not sure."
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Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle
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Of the 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
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Inside of you, you will know, and if you don't know,
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Maybe he has not come in yet.
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He is just a prayer away.
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All you need to do is say,
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"jesus, i want this relationship 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 could pray it out loud or you can pray it
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In the quietness of your heart, but this is a prayer
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Where you're asking jesus christ 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,
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But i know that you're the savior who died
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On the cross for my sin 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 on the authority of scripture
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That 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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Something called, "the new believer's bible."
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It's a very friendly translation
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Of the new testament you'll find very understandable.
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And it's filled with hundreds of notes that i wrote
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That will encourage you in this commitment you've just made
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To follow jesus.
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Let me send that to you at no charge.
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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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♪ this is the day, ♪
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♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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