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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Things Jesus Never Said | April 25, 2025
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- Greg laurie: you wanna be a happy person, don't chase
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- Happiness, chase after god, live a holy life
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- And you'll be a happy person.
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- Happiness is based on what you do, keeping god's word,
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- It's also based on what you don't do.
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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: you know, there are certain things we all believe to
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- Be true, because we've heard them forever, they're called old
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- Wives fables or old wives tales.
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- And i'm sorry if you're an old wife, no offense, but that's
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- What we call them.
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- And like here's one, if you drop food on the floor and pick it up
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- Before five seconds, it's okay, right?
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- Often called the five second rule.
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- Is that true?
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- No, because bacteria immediately transfers to food.
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- Here's another one, you can't go swimming after you've eaten or
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- You'll get cramps and maybe even drown.
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- Again, that is simply not true.
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- Doctors at duke health say that science behind
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- This tall tale is all wet.
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- Okay, so now there are things we hear about god or the bible.
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- We're told, "the bible says this."
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- And they're not really in the bible.
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- Here's one you've probably heard.
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- "god helps those who help themselves,
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- The good book tells us that."
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- Actually the good book does not tell you that.
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- Now, i don't completely disagree with the sentiment of the
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- Statement "god helps those who help themselves."
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- You might be saying to your teenager, "you need to go get a
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- Job now and be responsible because god helps those
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- Who help themselves."
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- Well, that's probably not the one thing to say.
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- You can say it, just don't say the bible says it.
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- A better verse would be the bible says, "if you don't work,
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- You won't eat, so get a job."
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- There you go.
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- Actually, if you were to take this concept, god helps those
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- Who help themselves, the truth would be god helps those
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- Who can't help themselves.
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- God helps those who need his help.
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- And so the opposite is actually true.
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- Here's another one.
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- The bible says, "cleanliness is next to godliness."
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- Nice idea, we quote that one when we want someone to take a
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- Shower, but that's not in the bible, okay.
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- And there are other things that we think are in the bible or we
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- Think this is what god feels.
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- Here's one, "god is angry at me and he's out to ruin my life."
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- Some people believe this and the very opposite is true.
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- Nothing can be further from the truth.
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- God is not mad at you, listen, god is mad about you.
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- If there's one thing that's clear in the bible from genesis
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- To revelation, it is this, god loves you.
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- He loves you the bible says with an everlasting love, therefore
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- With loving kindness, he has drawn you."
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- 1 john says, "god is love."
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- "for god so loved the world," jesus said, "he gave his only
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- Begotten son, and whoever believes in him will not perish
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- But have everlasting life."
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- 1 john 3:1 says, "behold what manner of love the father has
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- Given unto us, that we should be called the children of god."
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- So god loves you.
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- Here's another one we hear people say,
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- "just follow your heart."
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- Other variations on this are, "the heart wants what it wants."
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- What does that even mean?
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- "the heart wants what it wants so i'm gonna do this thing and i
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- Know you might think it's wrong, but the heart wants
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- What it wants.
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- Listen to your heart and you'll find the truth."
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- So in our modern culture, we would think of heart
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- As our emotion.
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- You know, if someone is not emotional,
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- We might say they're heartless.
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- If someone is too emotional, we might say, "well, they wear
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- Their heart on their sleeve."
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- And then if someone doesn't care, we say, "hey man,
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- Where's your heart?"
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- Maybe it's on their sleeves still, i don't know.
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- But think of all of the songs written about the heart.
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- Bruce springsteen, he had a hungry heart.
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- Billy ray cyrus, he had an achy, breaky heart, right?
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- And toni braxton saying, "unbreak my heart."
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- Maybe that's because billy ray gave her an achy breaky heart so
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- She's saying, "unbreak my heart."
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- But celine dion sorted it all out and she said,
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- "the heart goes on," right?
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- But what does it even mean when we say, "follow our heart?"
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- It basically means i'm gonna go with my emotion,
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- I'm gonna go with the way i'm feeling about this.
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- So should we trust our heart?
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- Well, the answer is no.
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- Jeremiah 17:9 says, "the heart is deceitful above all things
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- And it's beyond cure.
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- Who can understand it?"
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- No, i'm not gonna follow my heart because my heart can
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- Misdirect me.
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- Don't follow your heart, follow god's heart.
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- In other words, his will.
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- And how do i discover god's will?
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- By studying his word?
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- And really what is prayer?
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- Prayer is aligning myself with god's will.
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- Jesus said, "if you maintain a living communion with me and my
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- Words are at home in you, you can ask it once for yourself
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- Whatever your heart desires and it will be yours."
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- See, that sounds good but the idea is, i'm gonna find out what
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- God's will is and get in sync with it.
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- See, when i'm following the lord and say, "should my desires will
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- Change because my heart has changed."
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- And god promises in ezekiel 36:26, "i will give you a new
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- Heart and put a new spirit within you."
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- So then as we're reminded in psalm 27:4, excuse me, 37:4,
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- "delight yourself in the lord and he'll give you the desires
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- Of your heart."
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- So you get in alignment with god and now your heart changes, and
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- Now your prayers change and everything changes.
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- Here's another thing jesus never said, "love yourself."
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- "we need to love ourselves more."
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- The bible even says, "love yourselves."
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- The bible does not say, "you need to love yourself."
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- No, the bible says, "love your neighbor as yourself."
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- Yeah, so what is the bible really saying?
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- It's saying, "you already love yourself, that's obvious, can
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- You love your neighbor too?"
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- See, the bible teaches, "i am to love the lord my god, with all
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- Of my heart, soul, and mind.
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- I don't need to learn to love myself, i already love myself,
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- And you already love yourself too.
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- Sometimes people will say something related to this like,
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- "i'm trying to find myself."
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- Usually before they do something really stupid, they'll say,
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- "i'm just trying to find myself."
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- You know what?
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- You wanna find yourself then lose yourself.
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- Here's what jesus says, "if any man come after me, let him deny
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- Himself and take up the cross and follow me."
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- Listen, "for whoever will lose his life, will find it."
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- If you wanna find yourself, lose yourself, in other words, give
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- Your life to christ.
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- Here's another one.
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- "i deserve to be happy."
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- Do you?
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- "yes, the bible even says it."
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- No, it actually doesn't.
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- "but i deserve to be happy."
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- There's nothing wrong with that.
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- Desiring happiness i think is pre-wired in all of us.
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- It's not unique to modern times.
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- Way back in ad 397, augustine said, "everyone whatsoever is
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- Conditioned desires to be happy."
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- Yes, we wanna be happy.
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- Here's the problem, it's not wrong to be happy, it's not
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- Wrong to wanna be happy.
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- It is wrong when you go about trying to find happiness the
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- Wrong way.
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- Some people say, "well if i, you know, had a lot of money i'd be
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- Happier," or, "if i had fame, i'd be happy," or, "if i had
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- More power, i'd be happy," or, "if i drove this, i'd be happy,"
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- Or, "if i lived there i would be happy," or, "if i used this
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- Drug, i'd be happy."
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- And it isn't the case.
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- When comedian dave chappelle was starting to make millions of
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- Dollars, he said he was not happy.
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- He said, quote, "the higher up i go, for some reason,
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- The less happy i am.
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- And that's what people find out."
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- Now look, it's not wrong to want happiness
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- But don't say you deserve it.
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- "i deserve."
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- No, you don't deserve it.
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- Wanna be technical, you deserve judgment, because we've broken
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- God's commandments.
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- So don't say to the lord, "give me what i deserve."
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- The lord will say, "seriously?
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- Maybe we should not go there."
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- No, so you don't deserve to be happy but there's nothing wrong
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- With wanting to be happy.
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- I mean, know this god is happy.
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- Did you know that?
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- Jesus said, "i've told you this to make you
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- Completely happy as i am."
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- I don't think jesus walked around with a frown on his face
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- And perpetual sorrow.
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- Though it does say in the bible, "he was a man of sorrows and
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- Acquainted with grief," that is referring more to that point
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- Where he's bearing the sin of the world, but i think in
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- General, jesus was a happy guy.
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- I think he had a smile on his face, a spring in his step.
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- I think he was someone everyone wanted to be around for the most
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- Part, so happy is good, wanting happiness is fine.
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- Paul even writes about the good news from the happy god.
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- But here's the key, happiness is based on going about it in the
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- Right way.
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- For instance, the bible says in luke 11:28, "happy are those
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- That hear the word of god and keep it."
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- You wanna be a happy person don't chase happiness, chase
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- After god, live a holy life and you'll be a happy person.
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- Happiness is based on what you do, keeping god's word, it's
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- Also based on what you don't do because psalm 1 says, "happy is
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- The man or woman that does not walk in the counsel of the
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- Ungodly, or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of
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- The scornful, but their delight is in the word of the lord."
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- So the bible says, "happy are the people
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- Whose god is the lord."
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- Greg: you know, there are certain things in life that
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- Sometimes we think are true that actually aren't.
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- How about this one, "god loves me and accepts me
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- The way that i am?"
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- Is that true?
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- Sometimes another variation of that is,
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- "don't judge my journey."
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- And that's sometimes said by people that are doing things
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- They shouldn't be doing and then they say, "god loves me and
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- Accepts me the way that i am."
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- "i know i shouldn't go out and party and get drunk, but hey,
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- God loves me and accepts me the way that i am."
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- "i know i shouldn't dissolve my marriage to divorce, but hey,
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- God loves me and accepts me the way that i am."
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- Now is that true?
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- Yes technically, it's true that god loves you and accepts you
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- The way that you are.
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- Let me add something else, but he doesn't wanna leave you
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- That way.
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- See, you don't have to clean your life up and come to christ,
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- You come to christ and he'll clean your life up.
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- You can come with your addictions, with your sins,
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- With your problems.
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- Say, "lord, here i am."
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- But now god wants to change you and transform you.
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- This is what it means to be a follower of jesus christ.
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- The best illustration i can think of is the story
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- Of the prodigal son.
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- He left his father's house, spent all his money, made a mess
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- Of his life, came to his senses and decided to return home.
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- And jesus said, "while the boy was still a long ways away, the
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- Father saw him, ran to him, threw his arms around him,
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- Hugged him, kissed him, and said, 'rejoice with me this my
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- Son who was dead, is alive again,
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- He was lost and is found.'"
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- So in a sense you could say the father accepted him
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- As he was.
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- But then we read, the father said,
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- "get a clean robe on this boy."
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- In other words, get this boy a bath, right.
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- So we come to christ but now god wants to clean us up, and he
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- Wants to transform us.
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- So yes, god loves you and accepts you the way that you
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- Are, but he doesn't want to leave you that way.
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- He wants you to grow in your faith.
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- Greg: we get these cues from culture that tell us
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- How to think.
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- But the bible is in direct contrast to what
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- This world says.
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- Let me define this world.
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- The bible says, "love not the world, neither the things that
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- Are in this world, for all that is in the world, the lust of the
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- Eyes, the lust of the mind, and the pride of life
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- Is not of the father but of the world."
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- What does that mean?
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- You know, sometimes well-meaning, but misdirected
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- Christians will misinterpret this.
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- So you're enjoying a great burger.
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- "this is an amazing burger."
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- And they say, "love not the world."
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- "wow, look at that sunset."
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- "love not the world."
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- That's a misunderstanding.
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- The bible when it speaks of the world
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- Is not speaking of creation.
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- It is speaking of a system, a mentality, a way of thinking
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- That permeates everything in culture today.
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- It transcends politics, it transcends everything.
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- It's in academia, it's in social media, it's in movies, it's in
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- Television, it's everywhere.
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- It's basically the mentality of chasing after whatever makes me
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- Happy, the mentality of putting me first, the mentality of
- 00:13:46.769 --> 00:13:51.974
- Living the way that i want to live with no rules or no
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- Restrictions, and the one in charge of this mentality
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- Is the devil.
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- He's called the god of this world, the prince of the power
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- Of the air.
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- So don't love this world or this culture.
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- The bible gives us an opposite way of thinking.
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- According to the bible, the way to greatness is through
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- Humility, the way to life is through death,
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- Meaning dying to yourself.
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- The way to up is down, the way to happiness is sadness, meaning
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- That "i'm sorry for my sin and i repent of it,"
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- Now, find true happiness.
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- The paradox of the christian life is the more we give,
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- The more we receive.
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- The more we sacrifice, the more god blesses.
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- The more we give, he gives.
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- So if you wanna find your life, lose it by giving it
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- To jesus christ.
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- If you wanna be great, be humble.
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- If you want self-fulfillment, seek the fulfillment of others.
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- The way to up is down.
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- We need god's wisdom not this world's wisdom.
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- And that's what james talks about in james chapter 3.
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- Let's read some verses together starting in verse 13,
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- Reading down to verse 16.
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- "if you're wise and you understand god's ways, prove it
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- By living an honorable life, doing good works with the
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- Humility that comes from wisdom.
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- But if you're bitterly jealous, and there's selfish ambition in
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- Your heart, don't cover up the truth with boasting and lying,
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- For jealousy and selfishness are not god's kind of wisdom.
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- Such things are earthly unspiritual and demonic."
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- Verse 16, "wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition,
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- There you will find disorder and evil of every kind."
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- Here's some takeaway truths from what we just read
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- If you're taking notes.
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- The first one, we need to live our lives god's way not the way
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- Of this world.
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- We need biblical and godly wisdom.
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- So james is contrasting the wisdom of this culture, and the
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- Wisdom that comes from god.
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- When young solomon ascended to the throne after his father
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- David had died, the lord appeared to him in a dream.
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- And the lord said, "solomon, i'll give you whatever
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- You want."
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- And i love solomon's request.
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- He said, "lord, give me an understanding heart so i can
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- Govern your people well and know the difference
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- Between right and wrong."
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- We too should pray that prayer.
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- "lord, i wanna know right from wrong."
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- In fact, were told earlier in james 1:5, "if anyone lacks
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- Wisdom, let him ask of god who gives it generally
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- And does not hold it back."
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- Did you know that god wants to reveal his will to you,
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- But you need to pray about it.
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- Say, "lord, i need wisdom here.
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- I need to make the right decision."
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- And god cares about all those things you deal with in life.
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- He will give you wisdom, but make sure that you ask
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- For this wisdom.
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- You know, because you can be smart and not necessarily wise.
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- There are smart people that do really stupid things.
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- I've met people, they have great accomplishments.
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- They have the degrees on their wall.
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- We would call them intelligent, but they do
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- The dumbest things ever.
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- Wisdom is different than intelligence.
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- Intelligence is acquiring and applying knowledge, with your
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- Skills in life but wisdom is learning from the lessons
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- Of life, hopefully acquiring some wisdom.
- 00:17:22.718 --> 00:17:26.588
- But the ultimate source of wisdom is from god and his word,
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- Where we learn how to think biblically.
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- So a lot of times the way i make decisions is not because i hear
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- An audible voice from god, but i think of a biblical principle.
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- What should we do in this situation?
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- And then you think of a verse that applies to that, and you
- 00:17:43.405 --> 00:17:45.474
- Apply it and then you make your decision.
- 00:17:45.474 --> 00:17:48.043
- But god wants to give you this wisdom and jesus put it this
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- Way, he said, "there are two men that build homes.
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- One built his house on the rock, the other built his house on the
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- Sinking sand."
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- And then he says, "and the storms came and beat upon the
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- House and the house that was built upon the sand crumbled.
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- And then the same storms came and beat upon the other house
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- That was built upon the rock and it stood strong."
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- He says, "therefore, whoever hears these sayings of mine and
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- Does not do them, he's the foolish man
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- Building on the sand.
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- Whoever hears these sayings of mine and does them, he's the
- 00:18:19.374 --> 00:18:22.010
- Wise man or woman building his house on the rock."
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- We choose what kind of wisdom we're gonna have.
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- Are we gonna be wise or are we gonna be a fool?
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- Because wisdom is known by its actions.
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- Look at verse 13 of james 3.
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- "if you're wise in understanding god's ways, prove it by living
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- An honorable life, good works and the humility
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- That comes from wisdom."
- 00:18:43.999 --> 00:18:45.801
- If you're really a godly person, if you're really a wise person
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- You will live a godly life.
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- Otherwise i'm gonna doubt your wisdom.
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- And also you use it with humility.
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- You know, one of the problems of getting older is you just think
- 00:18:59.648 --> 00:19:02.017
- You know everything, right?
- 00:19:02.017 --> 00:19:04.820
- And you become the know it all.
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- So your sitting may be at a table with some young people and
- 00:19:07.022 --> 00:19:09.791
- They say something, you cut 'em off.
- 00:19:09.791 --> 00:19:11.827
- "that's wrong, let me set you straight."
- 00:19:11.827 --> 00:19:14.263
- No one wants to hang out with you.
- 00:19:14.263 --> 00:19:17.065
- I mean, you might even be technically correct,
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- But it's the way you do it.
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- You should have humility.
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- You might even learn something from some young people
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- If you pay attention.
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- Learn to be a good listener.
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- And then when people wanna hear your wisdom you can dispense it
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- From your little pedestal you carry around with you.
- 00:19:32.447 --> 00:19:37.486
- But the true wisdom is humble.
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- Here's another thing, true wisdom is known
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- By its good fruit.
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- Look at verse 17, "the wisdom from above is pure,
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- Peace-loving, gentle at all times, willing to yield to
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- Others, it's full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds,
- 00:19:51.433 --> 00:19:55.037
- It shows no favoritism and is always sincere.
- 00:19:55.037 --> 00:19:58.340
- And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace
- 00:19:58.340 --> 00:20:01.276
- And reap a harvest of righteousness."
- 00:20:01.276 --> 00:20:04.546
- God's wisdom is pure.
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- This speaks of moral purity.
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- If you're a wise person, you'll be a pure person in every way.
- 00:20:09.384 --> 00:20:15.324
- But also notice it says verse 17,
- 00:20:15.324 --> 00:20:18.260
- "willing to yield to others."
- 00:20:18.260 --> 00:20:21.630
- You don't have to win every argument, you don't have to
- 00:20:21.630 --> 00:20:24.633
- Dominate every conversation.
- 00:20:24.633 --> 00:20:27.569
- And this is true wisdom that's willing to yield to others.
- 00:20:27.569 --> 00:20:31.607
- You know, sometimes you just say, "i'll just concede that to
- 00:20:31.607 --> 00:20:34.843
- You right now.
- 00:20:34.843 --> 00:20:36.178
- We don't need to have a big conflict."
- 00:20:36.178 --> 00:20:37.913
- You know, sometimes people take knowledge and even wisdom and
- 00:20:37.913 --> 00:20:41.617
- They weaponize it.
- 00:20:41.617 --> 00:20:43.285
- And by that i mean they take something that they know
- 00:20:43.285 --> 00:20:45.954
- That may or may not be right and they use it to beat others,
- 00:20:45.954 --> 00:20:50.359
- To knock others down, to tear others down.
- 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:53.929
- And that comes to a point where i don't even care if you're
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- Right, i just don't like the way you do it, the way that you hurt
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- Other people with what you know.
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- A wise person is not so arrogant to think
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- They can't learn something.
- 00:21:05.874 --> 00:21:07.476
- So what does it say?
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- It says, "you should be a peacemaker."
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- Learn to be a peacemaker, not a troublemaker.
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- Learn how to be a bridge builder instead of a bridge burner.
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- Be a stepping stone instead of a stumbling block.
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- Don't be that person that walks in a room and everyone goes,
- 00:21:23.725 --> 00:21:25.627
- "oh boy, here we go."
- 00:21:25.627 --> 00:21:27.529
- You know, don't be that person.
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- Be the one who's full of compassion.
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- The one who will give their wisdom when the moment is right.
- 00:21:31.867 --> 00:21:35.470
- The one who learns to listen, the one who builds the bridges.
- 00:21:35.470 --> 00:21:39.107
- Okay, one last thought, things jesus never said.
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- Jesus never said, "if you live a good life,
- 00:21:44.146 --> 00:21:46.548
- You will go to heaven."
- 00:21:46.548 --> 00:21:48.817
- It's amazing to me how even some christians believe this.
- 00:21:48.817 --> 00:21:51.687
- They believe that if their good deeds outweigh their bad deeds,
- 00:21:51.687 --> 00:21:55.390
- God will let them into heaven.
- 00:21:55.390 --> 00:21:57.326
- That's wrong because the bible says, "it's not by works of
- 00:21:57.326 --> 00:22:00.495
- Righteousness which we have done but according to his mercy,
- 00:22:00.495 --> 00:22:03.265
- He saved us."
- 00:22:03.265 --> 00:22:05.167
- And ephesians said, "for by grace you've been saved through
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- Faith not of works lest any man should boast."
- 00:22:07.169 --> 00:22:09.838
- But let's just play that out, let's just for the sake
- 00:22:09.838 --> 00:22:12.908
- Of a point say, "it's true."
- 00:22:12.908 --> 00:22:15.610
- If your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds,
- 00:22:15.610 --> 00:22:17.913
- God will let you into heaven, okay.
- 00:22:17.913 --> 00:22:20.949
- Have your good deeds outweigh your bad deeds.
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- I don't think so.
- 00:22:23.885 --> 00:22:25.987
- So even your own argument is failing and that's not to even
- 00:22:25.987 --> 00:22:28.757
- Mention it's not true to begin with.
- 00:22:28.757 --> 00:22:32.027
- 'cause we've all fallen short of god's glory.
- 00:22:32.027 --> 00:22:34.029
- Listen, let me say something that may surprise you.
- 00:22:34.029 --> 00:22:36.598
- There's gonna be some, quote, "bad people" in heaven
- 00:22:36.598 --> 00:22:41.336
- And there's gonna be some, quote, "good people" in hell.
- 00:22:41.336 --> 00:22:46.174
- Does that make sense?
- 00:22:46.174 --> 00:22:47.743
- There'll be bad people in heaven.
- 00:22:47.743 --> 00:22:49.411
- "what do you mean?
- 00:22:49.411 --> 00:22:50.779
- I thought heaven was for good people."
- 00:22:50.779 --> 00:22:52.114
- No, heaven is for forgiven people.
- 00:22:52.114 --> 00:22:54.816
- How about that guy, right?
- 00:22:54.816 --> 00:23:00.822
- How about that guy who was crucified next to jesus?
- 00:23:00.822 --> 00:23:03.458
- We call him the thief on the cross.
- 00:23:03.458 --> 00:23:05.827
- I think he was guilty of a far worse crime than theft.
- 00:23:05.827 --> 00:23:08.964
- The romans didn't crucify thieves
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- But they did crucify murderers.
- 00:23:11.733 --> 00:23:14.369
- He probably had murdered people, but whatever his sin or crime
- 00:23:14.369 --> 00:23:18.340
- Was, he was crucified next to jesus.
- 00:23:18.340 --> 00:23:21.710
- And he said, "lord, remember me
- 00:23:21.710 --> 00:23:23.945
- When you come into your kingdom."
- 00:23:23.945 --> 00:23:25.480
- And jesus turned to him and said, "you're gonna have to do a
- 00:23:25.480 --> 00:23:28.049
- Lot of good works really quickly," right?
- 00:23:28.049 --> 00:23:32.354
- No, don't read that in the bible.
- 00:23:32.354 --> 00:23:35.290
- Jesus said, "truly, truly, i say to you, today you will be with
- 00:23:35.290 --> 00:23:39.394
- Me in paradise."
- 00:23:39.394 --> 00:23:41.496
- I mean, how amazing is that?
- 00:23:41.496 --> 00:23:43.131
- And i tell you, that was what you call a deathbed conversion,
- 00:23:43.131 --> 00:23:46.368
- And i have prayed with people on their deathbeds and seeing them
- 00:23:46.368 --> 00:23:50.138
- Come to christ.
- 00:23:50.138 --> 00:23:51.506
- People that had their heart hardened against god for all of
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- Their life but literally on their deathbed they realize
- 00:23:55.610 --> 00:23:59.781
- Their need for jesus, and what a joy it is to pray with someone
- 00:23:59.781 --> 00:24:04.019
- And lead them to christ and then saying the authority of
- 00:24:04.019 --> 00:24:06.121
- Scripture, "you're going to heaven."
- 00:24:06.121 --> 00:24:09.324
- How gracious god is?
- 00:24:09.324 --> 00:24:11.259
- Yeah so there'll be bad people in heaven so to speak, and
- 00:24:11.259 --> 00:24:14.596
- There'll be good people in hell.
- 00:24:14.596 --> 00:24:16.898
- "now, what does that even mean?"
- 00:24:16.898 --> 00:24:18.633
- Well look, if you are good in the sense that you think because
- 00:24:18.633 --> 00:24:21.970
- Of your good works you're gonna get to heaven, you're really
- 00:24:21.970 --> 00:24:25.006
- Missing the point because, "all have sinned and fallen short of
- 00:24:25.006 --> 00:24:28.577
- God's glory and one sin is enough to keep
- 00:24:28.577 --> 00:24:31.079
- You out of heaven."
- 00:24:31.079 --> 00:24:32.948
- The bible says, "if we offend in one point of the law,
- 00:24:32.948 --> 00:24:35.450
- We're guilty of all of it."
- 00:24:35.450 --> 00:24:37.853
- And the fact is, we've sinned a lot more than one time.
- 00:24:37.853 --> 00:24:41.790
- Jesus said, "in that final day, many will come to me saying,
- 00:24:41.790 --> 00:24:45.160
- 'lord, lord, did we not prophesy in your name?
- 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:48.530
- Did we not cast out demons in your name?
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- Did we not do wonderful works in your name?'"
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- I would update it and say,
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- "did we not receive communion in your name?
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- Did we not get baptized in your name?
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- Did we not attend church in your name?"
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- "and jesus will say to them, 'depart from me, i never knew
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- You, you workers of iniquity."
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- See, they knew about him, but they didn't know him.
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- So good works will not get you to heaven.
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- Now, let me close with something jesus did say.
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- Jesus said, "come unto me all of you who are exhausted with life
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- And are bending beneath its weight, come to me and i will
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- Refresh you with rest."
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- Let's pull some of these elements together.
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- God does love you, god will accept you as you are, but he
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- Doesn't wanna leave you that way.
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- God does have a plan for you that's better than your dreams
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- For yourself.
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- No, don't follow your heart, follow the lord.
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- Discover what he has in store for you in this life and in the
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- Life to come.
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- Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie. i've got some good news for you.
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- God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
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- Here's the problem, we're separated from god by our sin
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- Because we've all broken his commandments.
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- But the good news is, 2,000 years ago god sent his son
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- Jesus christ to die on the cross for your sin,
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- And then to rise again from the dead.
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- The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready to come into
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- Your life right now.
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- Would you like your sin forgiven?
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- Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven.
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- If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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- Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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- You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
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- I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you
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- From this moment forward."
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- Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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- If you did, god in heaven
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- Has heard you and i wanna send you
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