Greg Laurie - Turning the World Right-Side Up

May 1, 2025 | 27:29

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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Turning the World Right-Side Up | May 1, 2025

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Greg laurie: hi, i'm greg laurie, and i'm so glad you've
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Joined us, because god's word is full of promises, it's alive,
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It's powerful, and it can change your life.
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So, let's get started.
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♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪
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♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪♪
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Greg: years ago, i was walking my dog late at night.
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Well, i wasn't really walking him.
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I just let him go and do his business.
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And he was a bit down the street.
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And all of a sudden, a cat appears, and my dog starts
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Chasing the cat.
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They go a little further down the street, and suddenly
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I noticed this cat has a white stripe down its back,
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Which means it's not a cat at all.
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It is a skunk.
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And i hear this sound.
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Pssst.
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And i already could smell it.
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It's unbelievable how bad that scent is.
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My dog starts running toward me full blast.
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He's terrified.
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He's taken a direct hit in the face from a skunk.
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Now, i know what he's gonna do.
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He's gonna run to our house.
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So, i'm running ahead of my dog, trying to get to my house.
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I left the door wide open.
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I want to get there before he does and shut the door so
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He doesn't come in my house.
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Right as i'm getting to the front door, my dog runs right by
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Me, runs through my house.
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I open up the back window, and he goes into the back yard,
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And he's rolling around on the grass, and the scent was so
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Awful that my wife, who's asleep upstairs behind a closed
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Door--she does have a supersonic nose, though.
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She wakes up.
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"what is that smell?"
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And it was just horrible.
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And my poor dog is trying to get that smell off of him.
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And, you know, when you're hit, point blank by a skunk,
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You're gonna know it.
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And this sort of reminds me of sin.
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It just wrecks everything.
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Our whole world has been infected by the stench of sin,
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And there's no way to get rid of it.
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You know, you can run all that you want and try to escape it,
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But you can't get rid of the effects of sin any more than my
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Dog could get rid of the effects of that direct hit in his face
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From a skunk.
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So, we're looking now at the last days, and we're looking at
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What sin does in the lives of people.
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Satan is sort of having his heyday, and he's pulling out all
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The stops, and we're seeing the destruction and the misery
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That comes as a result.
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But why are things the way that they are at this time
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And in the last days?
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Number one, things are bad because satan is allowed
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To have his way.
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He's allowed.
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God allows evil in the world, and this is one of the hardest
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Things to explain, because things happen that are just not
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Right, and sometimes we are hard-pressed to come up with
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Some kind of an explanation that will satisfy people.
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But i can tell you this.
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Satan is described in the bible as the god of this world and
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Also as the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now
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Works in the sons of disobedience.
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And so he is behind the wickedness and the depravity and
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All the things that are wrong.
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But the title of this message is, "turning the world
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Right-side up."
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For the world to be turned right-side up, the devil needs
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To be knocked off of his perch.
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He needs to be dethroned.
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Listen, the devil may be invisible, and the devil may
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Also be insidious, but he is not invincible.
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He's going down, and he knows it.
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In fact, one of the reasons things are so bad in the last
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Days is because the devil knows his days are numbered.
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Revelation 12:12 says, "the devil has come down to you in
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Great anger, and he knows he has a little time."
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It's interesting this phrase "great anger"
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Speaking of the devil.
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It speaks of a violent burst of fury.
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It's not just someone who's upset.
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This is a violent emotional fury that the devil is unleashing.
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And why is satan so filled with hate and venom?
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Why does satan want our destruction?
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Why does satan do all these things?
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Because he knows jesus is coming.
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For us to know jesus is coming is an incentive to live a godly
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Life and reach people with the gospel, right?
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When the devil thinks of jesus coming, he wants to wreak as
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Much havoc as he possibly can.
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He wants to destroy as many lives as he can.
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Here's the second reason things are as bad as they are in our
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World today.
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The world is bad because god is not completely
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Having his way, yet.
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He's not completely having his way, yet.
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He allows certain things to happen.
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He is sovereign, which means ultimately in control, but he is
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Allowing the enemy, the devil, lucifer, and satan, to do what
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It is he wants to do.
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But ultimately, the lord is going to step in and change
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Everything and bring an end to the evil reign
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Of the devil and his demons.
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Only god can do this.
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Some people think politicians will solve our problems.
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I feel sorry for you, in particular.
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Or they think the answer is technology, or psychology, or
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Ecology, but the real truth is the answer is in theology
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Without apology.
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And if we don't have theology without apology, we're going to
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Have our own eulogy.
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We need god to step in.
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We need god to right all wrongs and turn things right-side up.
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So, let's kind of get this chronologically
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Before we read our text.
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So, the antichrist is doing his thing.
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He has established himself as the head of a ten-nation
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Confederacy, and he's led them to war.
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They faced off with the kings of the east in the battle of
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Armageddon and all kinds of destruction is unleashed.
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Now it's god's turn.
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Now, god's gonna step in.
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Read revelation 20, verses 1 to 4 with me right now.
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John writes, "and then i saw an angel coming down from heaven,
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Having the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain
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In his hand.
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And he laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the
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Devil, and satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and he
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Cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a
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Seal on him, that he should deceive the nations no more,
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Until the thousand years were finished.
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But after these things, he was released for a little while.
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And i saw thrones in them, that sat on them, and judgment was
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Committed to them.
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And i saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for their
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Witness to jesus and for the word of god, who had not
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Worshiped the beast or his image or received his mark on their
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Foreheads or on their hands.
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And they lived and reigned with christ for a thousand years."
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Now, let's talk for a moment about what our world's going to
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Be like during the millennium.
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Number one, when christ comes and rules on this planet,
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There will be world peace.
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Isaiah 2:4 says the lord will settle international disputes,
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And all the nations will beat their swords into plowshares,
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And their spears into pruning hooks.
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All wars will stop and military training will come to an end.
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When christ comes and reigns again, there'll be world peace,
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No more conflict.
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Number two, during the millennium, there'll be joy and
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Happiness, and no more disabilities.
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Am i talking to somebody right now with a disability?
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When christ comes and reigns, there'll be no more depression,
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No more wheelchairs, no more blindness or deafness.
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Isaiah 35 says when he comes, he'll open the eyes of the
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Blind.
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He'll unstop the ears of the deaf, and the lame will leap
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Like a deer, and those who cannot speak
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Will shout and sing.
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Another feature of this time is people will live really long
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Lives.
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Isaiah 65:20 says no longer will babies die when
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Only a few days old.
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No longer will adults die before they've lived a full life.
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No longer will people be considered old at 100.
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I like the sound of that.
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Also, number four, the animal kingdom will be subdued.
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This is where the wolf and the lamb are together with a little
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Child leading them.
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We're all familiar with that, i think.
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Animals will be completely tame and docile.
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Isaiah 11:6 says the wolf will romp with the lamb.
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The leopard will sleep with the kid.
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Calf and lion will eat from the same trough, and a little child
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Will lead them.
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An amazing time, where the animals are subdued, and there
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Will also be universal justice and righteousness.
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Universal justice and righteousness, no more corrupt
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Lawyers, or corrupt judges, or frivolous lawsuits.
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Psalm 72:2 says he will judge your people in righteousness,
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Your afflicted ones with justice.
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He will defend the afflicted among the people and save the
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Children of the needy.
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And listen to this.
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The curse that came upon the world because of sin will be
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Lifted completely.
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Romans 8:19 says all creation is waiting for this day when god
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Will remove the curse from the planet.
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This all happens in the millennium.
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Greg: have you ever asked yourself the question,
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"why do i exist?
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Why am i here on this earth?
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What is the meaning of my life?"
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I'm greg laurie, and i wanna give you a biblical answer
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To that question.
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Let me tell you what you should not try to live for.
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Don't live for the pursuit of happiness.
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The most unhappy people are the ones
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Who are living for happiness.
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You chase after those things and you'll always come up empty.
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Now listen to this: you were prewired to know god.
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You have been made to have a relationship with him.
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The answer for this question on earth as to why we exist
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Is actually answered in heaven, where we hear about worship
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Going toward the throne of god, and the statement is made,
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"for your pleasure you have created all things."
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You see, so often we spend our life pursuing pleasure
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When in reality, if we pursue god, we'll find the pleasure
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We're looking for.
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The bible says, "in his presence there is fullness of joy,
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And on his right hand there are pleasures forevermore."
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Why do you exist?
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You exist to have a relationship with your creator.
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Your father in heaven who loves you.
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Then, he has a plan for your life that will unfold,
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And you'll see how he'll guide and lead you.
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You exist to know god and bring him pleasure.
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So if you wanna be a happy person and you want to
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Experience pleasure, don't pursue those things, pursue god,
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And then you'll know why you're on this earth.
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Greg: there's trouble in paradise.
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Satan and his minions are released after 1,000 years of
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Incarceration, and people follow them.
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Now, this just goes to show that people are wicked in their
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Heart.
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We like to say it's all the fault of the environment or
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Where you're raised; but in reality, we have people living
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In a perfect environment.
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You say, "who are these people?"
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These are the children, of the children, of the children, of
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Those that survived the great tribulation, period.
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They're descendants who still have sinful natures.
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We, who have been with christ, are in new bodies.
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We don't have sinful natures anymore.
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But these are these people.
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They actually rebel against god, after being ruled by christ for
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A thousand years.
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Looks like satan's time of being incarcerated hasn't changed him
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One bit.
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He picks up where he last left off, and he does what he does
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Best: raises hell.
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But the lord finally says, "it's over, no more of this."
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Verse 10 of revelation 20, "the devil that deceived them was
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Cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast
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And false prophet are.
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They'll be tormented day and night for ever and ever."
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Okay, let's shift gears.
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Now we move from the millennium on earth to the great white
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Throne judgment in heaven.
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Revelation 20, verse 11.
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Then john writes, "i saw a great white throne, and him that sat
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On it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and
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There was found no place for them.
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And i saw the dead, small and great, standing before god; and
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Books were opened."
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You might underline that word "books."
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Notice it's plural.
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"and another book," singular, "was opened, which is the book
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Of life: and the dead were judged according to their works
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By the things that were written in the books.
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And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and
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Hades delivered up the dead that were in them: and they were
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Judged each one according to his works.
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Then death and hades were cast into the lake of fire.
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This is the second death.
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And anyone not found written in the book of life was cast into
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The lake of fire."
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Wow, what an ominous scene.
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This is probably the most serious and sobering passage in
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All of the bible.
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So, here's this great white throne.
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Why is it white?
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Because it's pure, and god is going to judge
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From this pure throne.
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And if a person ends up at this judgment, it's too late.
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There's gonna be no debate over guilt or innocence.
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There's gonna be a prosecutor but no defense attorney.
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There'll be an accuser but no advocate.
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There'll be an indictment but no defense mounted by the accused.
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The convicting evidence will be presented with no rebuttal or
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Cross-examination.
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There is no jury.
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There is simply a judge.
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And that holy judgment will be final and binding for all
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Eternity.
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Some people say, "when i stand before god, i'll make my case."
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No, it's too late.
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There are thousands of chances before death.
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But if you end up at the great white throne judgment,
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My friend, it's too late.
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Who will be at this judgment?
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Well, number one, there'll just be out and out sinners.
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By out and out sinners, i mean people who acknowledge
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They're a sinner.
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They own it. they don't make excuses for it.
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They kind of like being a sinner.
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These are people that have no interest in god.
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Maybe they even go out of their way to mock god and make fun
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Of people who believe in jesus christ.
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Yeah, they'll be there at this great white throne judgment,
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But there's some other people that will be there, as well,
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Like self-righteous people.
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Now, they're different from the outright sinner, because
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The self-righteous person feels because of the things they've
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Done or the good life they've led, they'll be admitted
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Into heaven.
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They don't think they need god.
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They don't need jesus.
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They don't need forgiveness.
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They'll be there, as well, because they ignored the passage
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That said, "it's not by works of righteousness which we have
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Done, but according to his mercy, he saved us."
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Procrastinators will be there, as well.
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Now, these people are different from your average sinner or even
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Your self-righteous person.
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The procrastinator is a person you tell about jesus, and
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They'll say something along the lines of, "well, you know what?
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I really am interested in that.
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I'm going to look into that.
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And yeah, i'll go to church with you sometime or i'll watch
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Harvest at home maybe someday.
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And i think it's good that you seem to have found something
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That has helped you, and i'm open to this, but i'm busy, and
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I don't have time right now."
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They'll be there, too, because they procrastinated
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For too long.
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Guess who else will be there?
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Unsaved church members.
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Just because you go to church, it doesn't necessarily
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Mean you're a christian.
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And there are people that attend churches, there are people that
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Have their name on the membership roll of a church, but
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They are not followers of jesus.
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They're living a double life, because they're not really
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Christians at all.
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They'll be there at the great white throne judgment.
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The final confrontation between god and man is there
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To demonstrate why this is happening.
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Jesus explains it in john 3:18.
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"he that believes in me is not condemned, but he who does not
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Believe in me is condemned already, because he has not
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Believed in the name of the only begotten son."
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Listen, i know this isn't popular.
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I know this will offend someone, but i'm gonna say it
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Because it's in the bible.
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There is only one way to come into a relationship with god
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The father, and that is through jesus christ.
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Jesus said, "i am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man
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Comes to the father, but by me."
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So, if you reject that, if you say no to christ, who suffered
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And died in your place, on the cross, and said, "i don't want
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Your forgiveness, i don't care about your sacrifice," you'll
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End up in this judgment 'cause there's only one way to get to
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Heaven, and it's by having christ come
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And live inside of you.
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As i've said many times, heaven is not for good people.
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Heaven is for forgiven people.
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Have you been forgiven of your sin?
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If not, i'll tell you how to be in a few moments,
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And i'll tell you how you can be sure your name is written
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In the book of the life.
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So, stay with me because i'm almost done.
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Isn't it interesting how we read here that books are opened,
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Plural, and a book is opened, singular,
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Which is the book of life.
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So, what is written in these books.
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Well, i don't think i can say with certainty, but i think i
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Can offer an educated guess, based on other passages
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Of the bible.
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I think one of these books may be the book of god's law.
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The book of god's law.
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By that i mean it's the ten commandments.
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The bible tells us in romans 3:19, "the commandments were
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Given that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world would
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Be guilty before god."
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The ten commandments open my eyes, and they shut my mouth,
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Because i might say, "well, i lived a good life,
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And i was a good person."
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Okay, really? here's the ten commandments.
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Every one of us have broken these commandments.
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Let me ask you a question.
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Have you ever lied? have you ever stolen?
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Have you ever taken the lord's name in vain?
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Have you ever coveted something that belonged to someone else?
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You say, "well, of course."
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Okay, then you've broken a commandment.
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And the bible says, "if you have offend in one point of the law,
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You're guilty of all of it.
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So, we might say, "well, i'm good, i lived a good life."
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And god will say, "open up this book," and it's a book of the
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Law showing that i have broken these commandments.
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Perhaps another book would be a record of everything i've said
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And done, everything i've said and done.
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Ecclesiastes 12:14 says god will judge us for everything we do,
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Including every hidden thing, good or bad.
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Think about that.
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Everything you've done is recorded in heaven, every word
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You spoke, every thought you had, every text you sent.
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Everything is recorded in heaven.
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In matthew 12:36, it says every idle word a man speaks, he'll
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Have to give an account of on the day of judgment.
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Maybe another one of these books would show that you didn't even
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Live up to your own standards.
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Because sometimes people will say, "well, i'm not into
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Organized religion.
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I have my own beliefs that i live by."
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Really?
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When you say you're not into organized religion, can i be so
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Bold as to suggest what you're really saying is, "i don't want
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To hear about jesus christ or the bible"?
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Because what is organized religion?
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Is that what you call it?
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I call it a relationship with jesus christ.
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But anyway, "i have my own rules that i live by."
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I suggest you don't even live up to your own standards.
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You'll set a standard.
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"this is wrong and i'll never do this thing."
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Then you do that thing.
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"well, maybe it's not as wrong as i thought.
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This other thing is bad. i'll never do that."
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Then you do that.
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Well, you keep adjusting it according to bad choices
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You make.
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So, all these books are opened that show you really brought
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This on yourself.
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Maybe another book is a record of every time you heard the
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Gospel and rejected it.
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Because someone might say, "well, wait, wait, no one ever
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Told me about jesus, no one ever told me he died on the cross
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For my sin."
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No, hold it. check this out.
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Maybe there's a film reel with highlights of your life, all the
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Times you heard the gospel.
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Here you are as a little kid in sunday school, and your teacher
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Is telling you jesus loves you, and you're cutting
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Off the pigtail of the girl sitting in front of you.
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Here you are as a young man, and someone engages you on the
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Street and talked about christ, and you pushed them away.
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Here you are flipping the channels, or you're on youtube
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Just looking at different things, and you hear some bald
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Guy telling you, you need jesus, and you say, "i don't want
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To watch that right now.
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I want to go watch a cat video instead."
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See, you heard the gospel, and you're held responsible
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To what you've heard.
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You know more than you think you know.
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Knowledge brings responsibility.
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The question will be, "is your name written
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In the book of life?"
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One day, every person on earth will meet jesus christ.
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He's inescapable, and he's unavoidable.
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And if you don't meet him as savior, you will one day meet
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Him as judge, because philippians 2 says, "at the name
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Of jesus christ, every knee will bow of those in heaven and those
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On the earth, and every tongue will confess that jesus christ
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Is the lord, to the glory of god the father."
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Every person, world leaders, presidents, prime ministers,
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Kings, queens, movie stars, rock stars, billionaires, unknown
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People, everyone will stand before god.
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And know this: the road to hell is paved with excuses.
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If you end up in hell, you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Hell is a prison in which the doors are first locked from the
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Inside by us, and then are locked from the outside by god.
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Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart, and you have seen
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Your need for jesus christ.
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Jesus christ is the son of god, who came from heaven
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To this earth.
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He was born in a manger.
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He died on the cross.
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He rose again from the dead. why?
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Because he loves you, and he wants a relationship with you.
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Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
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I don't want to be a religious person.
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I don't think you want to be one either.
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I'm talking about relationship with god.
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Jesus, who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life,
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And he knocks, and he says, if you'll hear his voice and open
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The door, he will come in.
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Question: "have you asked jesus christ to come and live inside
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Of you?"
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You might say, "well, i think so, i'm not sure."
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Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle of the
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Night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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I'm sure you would.
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And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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You will know.
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And if you don't know, maybe he has not come in, yet.
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He's just a prayer away.
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All you need to do is say, "jesus, i want
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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 in the quietness
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Of your heart.
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But this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ to be
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Your savior and lord.
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Pray this with me now.
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"lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner, but i know that you're
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The savior, who died on the cross for my sin and rose again
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From the dead.
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Now come into my life.
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I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering this
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Prayer, in jesus' name, amen."
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Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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If so, i want you to know in the authority of scripture
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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,
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At no charge, something called,
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"the new believer's bible."
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It's a very friendly translation
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Of the new testament,
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You'll find very understandable.
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And it's filled
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With hundreds of notes that i wrote
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That will encourage you
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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
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And welcome to the family of god.
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Greg: greg laurie here.
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You know, at harvest ministries we're committing to reaching
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Unexpected people in unexpected places with an
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Unexpected message.
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And thanks to your financial support, we've been able to
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Touch people all over the world with the hope of jesus christ.
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Your gifts today not only help reach millions across the
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Country through this television program,
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They also help us to bring hope to people in their biggest need.
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Whether through our evangelistic events or our relief efforts,
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Together we've been able to minister to so many people
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And also, your support has helped us partner to bring
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Medical help in the ongoing conflict in israel.
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So i'm asking you today to continue to support this
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Ministry so we can do everything possible to fulfill the
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Great commission.
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Let's do this together, and let me say in advance,
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Thank you and god bless you.
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Female announcer: jesus says that where two or three are
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Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them.
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We are all different.
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We have different interests, different personalities,
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Different upbringings, and different ways we do life,
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But here, we have a deep connection,
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And you are welcome here.
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This is harvest.
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Greg Laurie - Turning the World Right-Side Up

May 1, 2025 | 27:29

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