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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - What The Lord's Return Means To You | August 19, 2025
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- Greg: now, we can grow impatient.
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- "lord, come on. return. i'm so tired of this horrible world.
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- Come for us!"
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- Okay, yes, but you have a job to do.
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- We have a job to do.
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- We need to reach more people with the gospel.
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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, it's really important for us as christians
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- To understand bible prophecy.
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- Bible prophecy is basically what the bible says
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- About the end times.
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- And not only is it important for us to know about it, but there's
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- A blessing attached to the person who studies bible
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- Prophecy and specifically in the book of revelation, it says
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- "blessed is the person who reads and hears the words of this
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- Prophecy and keeps the things that are written in it,
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- For the time is at hand.
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- Now i know some would say, well it's really hard to understand
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- Bible prophecy.
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- Well, i don't know that that's true.
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- Because it's not god's desire to conceal;
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- It's his desire to reveal.
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- And to the point the very word "revelation"
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- Means the unveiling.
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- And that's why jesus, when speaking of the abomination and
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- Desolation, of desolation in matthew 24, he says
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- "let the reader understand," why?
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- Because we need to understand these things and what they mean
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- To us today, and it should impact us in the way
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- That we live.
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- When we study bible prophecy, it's not there to tantalize
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- Or entertain us.
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- It should motivate us to personal godliness
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- And bold evangelism.
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- 1 john 3:2 says, "beloved, now we're the children of god.
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- It's not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know
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- That when he is revealed, we shall be like him,
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- For we will see him as he is."
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- But then it goes on to say this: "and everyone that has this hope
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- In him purifies himself even as he is pure."
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- So if i understand bible prophecy as i ought to,
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- It will have a spiritually purifying affect on me.
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- In other words, it will cause me to want to live
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- A more godly life.
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- You know, some people love to study bible prophecy.
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- They're almost fanatical about it.
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- They bring out all their charts and here's what's
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- Gonna happen next.
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- And that's fine to have an interest in it, but some people
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- Think everything's a fulfillment of bible prophecy.
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- This want ad i just read, this lost cat,
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- I think it's a fulfillment of something.
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- Well, maybe you're kinda going overboard.
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- But then i look at some people, it's almost like their hobby to
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- Study bible prophecy, but i see their life is falling apart,
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- Or their marriage is unraveling, or they're living immorally,
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- And as far as i'm concerned, you're missing the point.
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- The point of the study of end times events is to cause us to
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- Wanna live a more godly life.
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- Okay, so here we have james now, telling us how we should be
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- Impacted by end times events, how we should live as we wait
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- For the return of the lord.
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- James 5 verse 7: "dear brothers and sisters," writes james,
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- "be patient as you wait for the lord's return.
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- Consider the farmers who patiently wait for the rains
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- In the fall and in the spring.
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- They eagerly look for the valuable harvest to reap.
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- You, too, must be patient.
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- Take courage, for the coming of the lord is near.
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- Don't grumble about each other, brothers and sisters,
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- Or you will be judged.
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- For look, the judge is standing at the door!
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- For examples of patience in suffering, dear brothers and
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- Sisters look at the prophets who spoke in the name of the lord.
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- We give honor to those who endure under suffering.
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- For instance, you know about job, a man of great endurance.
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- You can see how the lord was kind to him in the end,
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- For the lord is full of tenderness and mercy."
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- Stop there.
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- How should we live as we await the lord's return?
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- Point number one: be patient.
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- Be patient.
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- Verse 7, "dear brothers and sisters, be patient as you wait
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- For the lord's return."
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- By the way, the word used here for patience is not speakin' of
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- A passive resignation, but rather an expectancy as one
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- Waits on the lord.
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- Sort of an excitement, living in a state of readiness.
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- The bible says, for those that look for him, christ shall
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- Appear the second time.
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- Look for him.
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- And so the idea here is, is looking forward to it,
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- Sort of like a kid on christmas eve.
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- 'member when you were a little boy or girl and you were hoping
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- Your parents got you what you told 'em you wanted for
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- Christmas, and you ran down the stairs, and there it was,
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- And you tore the package open.
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- That's how we should be living as we await the lord's return,
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- With excitement, not some laissez-faire attitude.
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- In fact, paul in romans 13 verse 11 says,
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- "understanding the present time.
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- The hour has come to wake up from your slumber, because our
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- Salvation is nearer than when we first believed.
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- The night is nearly over; the day is almost here."
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- And then paul goes on to say this: "so therefore let us put
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- Aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.
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- Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and
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- Drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery,
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- Not in dissension and jealousy.
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- Right, so wake up and live a life that is honoring god.
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- But we have to be patient.
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- And sometimes it may seem to us as though god is late.
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- You know, the people of israel were impatient.
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- It had been four hundred years since they had heard
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- From a single prophet.
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- Four hundred years since they'd seen a miracle.
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- Four hundred years and they had not had a single angelic
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- Appearance, but galatians 5 says when the time was just right,
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- God sent forth his son made of a woman, born under the law
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- To redeem those that are under the law.
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- And jesus, the messiah, fulfilled prophecy and was born
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- In the manger of bethlehem.
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- When the time was right.
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- And when the time is right, the messiah will return again.
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- No one knows the day or the hour, the bible says,
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- But we need to wait patiently, and sometimes if it seems
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- To you as though the lord is late, here's this word
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- For you from scripture.
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- 1 peter 3, "the lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some
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- Understand slowness.
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- He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish,
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- But everyone to come to repentance."
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- Why has jesus not come back yet?
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- He's waiting for more people to believe.
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- And my prayer is that we will have a minimum of one more
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- Spiritual awakening before the lord comes for his church.
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- One more. maybe more.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- I think you can make a pretty good scriptural case for there
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- Being a spiritual awakening before the lord's return,
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- But that's what we should be praying for.
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- That's why we've asked you all to be praying for revival,
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- And pray that god will send a spiritual awakening.
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- It will come at the right moment.
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- Martin luther once said, and he said this to me personally--
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- Not really.
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- He said, "there are two days on my calendar,
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- This day and that day.
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- That day, the day of the lord."
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- Now, we can grow impatient.
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- "lord, come on. return.
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- I'm so tired of this horrible world.
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- Come for us!"
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- Okay, yes, but you have a job to do.
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- We have a job to do.
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- We need to reach more people with the gospel.
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- Point number two: as much as possible,
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- Stand in unity with fellow christians.
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- As much as it's possible as we await the lord's return, stand
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- In unity with fellow christians.
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- Look at verse 9: "don't grumble about each other,
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- Brothers and sisters, or you will be judged.
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- Look, the judge is standing at the door."
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- Don't complain about other believers.
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- Go to them and try to help them.
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- To grumble about means to groan within oneself.
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- It's a description of a person with a bitter attitude who is
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- Always criticizing and complaining.
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- Someone might say, "i have the spiritual gift of criticism."
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- No, you don't.
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- There's no gift like that.
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- "well, i just see everything that's wrong."
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- Well, that's part of the problem.
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- Don't be that person.
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- The problem with bitter people is they generally can't keep
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- Their bitterness to themselves.
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- That's why the bible warns about a rooted bitterness springing up
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- And defiling many.
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- Don't be that person tearing others down.
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- You have a disagreement with someone, go to them.
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- Nowadays with social media, especially twitter,
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- People will just attack one another.
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- Christians will attack one another without even
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- Understanding the other person's position.
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- And this goes against what jesus says in matthew 18:15 when he
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- Says, "if another believer sins against you, go privately to
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- Them and point out the offense, and if they listen and confess,
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- You've won that person back."
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- Listen, never tear others down to lift yourself up.
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- Never make yourself look better at the expense of someone else.
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- "oh, well, they don't do this, but i do it."
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- You know, don't do that.
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- The bible actually says you should not engage in that, why?
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- Point number three: be aware of the afterlife.
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- Meaning you're going to be judged.
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- Verse 9, "for look, the judge is standing at the door."
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- Christians will be judged, but let's explain that.
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- There are different judgments in the bible.
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- There's the great white throne judgment spoken of in revelation
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- 20, where the small and the great stand before god and the
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- Books are opened.
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- And a book is opened which is the book of life, and we read
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- Whoever does not have their name written in the book of life is
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- Cast into the lake of fire.
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- That judgment is for nonbelievers only.
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- No christian will stand at the great white throne judgment.
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- I don't even think we'll be present at the great white
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- Throne judgment.
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- But then there's another judgment the bible speaks
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- Of called the judgment seat of christ.
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- Now, that's not a judgment as to whether or not
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- You will get to heaven.
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- As a matter of fact, that particular judgment
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- Takes place in heaven.
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- And paul writing about it in 2 corinthians 5 says, "we must all
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- Appear before the judgment seat of christ, that each one may
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- Receive the things done in the body according to what he has
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- Done, whether good or bad."
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- So, this is not are you gonna get to heaven?
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- You're in heaven, but this is about rewards.
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- You see, rewards are gonna be given in heaven.
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- You know, the bible says your father who sees you in secret
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- Will one day reward you openly, and the bible talks about
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- Different crowns that are given.
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- There's a crown of life, there's a crown of rejoicing, and other
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- Crowns listed in scripture that god will give out.
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- So, here's when you will be rewarded.
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- Think of sort of like the oscars or the emmys or the grammys.
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- You're receiving an award for what you did on earth.
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- And we might be surprised by who some of these awards to go.
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- We think oh, you know, billy graham is gonna get every award.
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- Well, maybe he will, but maybe we'll be up in heaven,
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- "and the award goes to maud frickenbinder."
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- Who?
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- Don't google that name, i made it up.
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- There is no maud frickenbinder.
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- It's sort of like bobby buzzkill,
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- These are fictitious characters.
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- Maud frickenbinder.
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- Who is maud frickenbinder? did she ever write a book?
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- No.
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- Was she in a christian band? no.
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- Was she some kind of a preacher?
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- No.
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- Who was she?
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- She was a faithful old lady that was immobilized in her home
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- And stayed and prayed for people all around the world, and she
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- Was faithful to what god called her to do, and she'll be
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- Rewarded, because her father who sees her in secret
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- Will reward her openly.
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- Listen, you will not be judged for what god
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- Has called me to do.
- 00:12:46.665 --> 00:12:48.334
- I will not be judged for what god has called you to do.
- 00:12:48.334 --> 00:12:51.537
- We will each be judged for what god has called us
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- Individually to do.
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- So live the way you want to be living and make your life count.
- 00:12:57.243 --> 00:13:00.613
- Point number four: be courageous, be courageous.
- 00:13:00.613 --> 00:13:06.385
- Verse 2, "take courage, for the coming of the lord is near.
- 00:13:06.385 --> 00:13:11.390
- The hope of christ coming should give us courage."
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- Another translation puts it this way: "put iron into your soul."
- 00:13:15.928 --> 00:13:21.000
- I like that.
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- Even another translation says, "be resolute."
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- Be resolute.
- 00:13:26.205 --> 00:13:28.140
- And by the way, that's the same word used to describe jesus
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- Going to the cross.
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- We're in luke 9:51, we read: "as the time approached for him
- 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:36.415
- To be taken to heaven,
- 00:13:36.415 --> 00:13:37.750
- Jesus resolutely set out for jerusalem."
- 00:13:37.750 --> 00:13:43.088
- What kept jesus going on that day as he carried
- 00:13:43.088 --> 00:13:46.358
- The cross for us?
- 00:13:46.358 --> 00:13:48.060
- After his back had been ripped open with a roman cat of nine
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- Tails most likely.
- 00:13:52.231 --> 00:13:54.533
- The people were crying, "crucify him.
- 00:13:54.533 --> 00:13:56.836
- Let his blood be upon us and upon our children."
- 00:13:56.836 --> 00:13:59.638
- His disciples largely were in hiding.
- 00:13:59.638 --> 00:14:02.975
- He's carrying that cross, but yet he pressed on resolutely.
- 00:14:02.975 --> 00:14:07.847
- What kept him going?
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- The answer is found in hebrews 12 when it says, "for the joy
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- That was set before him, he endured the cross, despising
- 00:14:13.719 --> 00:14:17.723
- The shame, and now is set down on the right hand of god."
- 00:14:17.723 --> 00:14:21.327
- The joy.
- 00:14:21.327 --> 00:14:22.661
- So, something motivated jesus.
- 00:14:22.661 --> 00:14:24.597
- It was the joy set before him.
- 00:14:24.597 --> 00:14:26.632
- What was the joy?
- 00:14:26.632 --> 00:14:28.100
- It was the knowledge that you and me and all of us would
- 00:14:28.100 --> 00:14:31.470
- Believe one day he was dying for our sins, and that made it
- 00:14:31.470 --> 00:14:35.241
- Worth it for christ.
- 00:14:35.241 --> 00:14:36.942
- He had his eyes on the prize.
- 00:14:36.942 --> 00:14:39.545
- He was headed toward the goal, and that's what we need to keep
- 00:14:39.545 --> 00:14:42.615
- Our eyes on as we go through the adversities and hardships and
- 00:14:42.615 --> 00:14:46.118
- Challenges of life.
- 00:14:46.118 --> 00:14:47.987
- Keep your eyes on jesus.
- 00:14:47.987 --> 00:14:49.722
- Keep your eyes on heaven.
- 00:14:49.722 --> 00:14:51.490
- Keep your eyes on eternity.
- 00:14:51.490 --> 00:14:56.862
- Greg: i have a boxing glove here signed by manny pacquiao.
- 00:15:01.066 --> 00:15:05.004
- Now, because i own this glove--by the way,
- 00:15:05.004 --> 00:15:07.806
- Manny's a christian--but because i own this glove,
- 00:15:07.806 --> 00:15:10.542
- This does not make me a boxer.
- 00:15:10.542 --> 00:15:12.711
- It makes me someone that owns a glove that belongs
- 00:15:12.711 --> 00:15:15.547
- To a famous boxer.
- 00:15:15.547 --> 00:15:17.249
- I have a football here.
- 00:15:17.249 --> 00:15:18.717
- Owning a football does not make me a quarterback, right?
- 00:15:18.717 --> 00:15:22.788
- And in the same way, owning a bible doesn't make you a
- 00:15:22.788 --> 00:15:25.858
- Christian, it's who you are.
- 00:15:25.858 --> 00:15:28.260
- The bible says, "by their fruit you shall know them."
- 00:15:28.260 --> 00:15:31.363
- My question for you is: if you were arrested for being a
- 00:15:31.363 --> 00:15:34.867
- Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
- 00:15:34.867 --> 00:15:38.437
- By evidence, i don't mean how many bibles you have.
- 00:15:38.437 --> 00:15:41.173
- I have quite a collection of bibles at home,
- 00:15:41.173 --> 00:15:43.409
- Pretty much one for every decade that i've known the lord,
- 00:15:43.409 --> 00:15:47.112
- And i don't throw them away, sometimes i give them away,
- 00:15:47.112 --> 00:15:50.582
- But the point is it's not how many bibles i have,
- 00:15:50.582 --> 00:15:52.818
- It's if the bible has made its way into my heart.
- 00:15:52.818 --> 00:15:55.921
- It's not how you mark your bible,
- 00:15:55.921 --> 00:15:57.856
- It's how your bible marks you.
- 00:15:57.856 --> 00:16:00.359
- It's not even enough to go through the word of god,
- 00:16:00.359 --> 00:16:02.728
- The word of god must go through you.
- 00:16:02.728 --> 00:16:05.631
- The bible says by their fruit you shall know them.
- 00:16:05.631 --> 00:16:07.700
- If people look at your life, your lifestyle,
- 00:16:07.700 --> 00:16:10.636
- Your choices, even your language,
- 00:16:10.636 --> 00:16:12.838
- Can they tell you're a follower of jesus?
- 00:16:12.838 --> 00:16:16.241
- Be someone who's known by their spiritual fruit.
- 00:16:16.241 --> 00:16:19.111
- And don't be someone that pretends to be something you are
- 00:16:19.111 --> 00:16:21.780
- Not, like me pretending i'm a boxer,
- 00:16:21.780 --> 00:16:24.850
- That's called being a poser.
- 00:16:24.850 --> 00:16:26.285
- Don't be a poser.
- 00:16:26.285 --> 00:16:27.720
- Be a follower of jesus christ.
- 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:30.089
- Greg: you know, the bible says: "a good person
- 00:16:31.090 --> 00:16:34.093
- Leaves an inheritance for their children's children."
- 00:16:34.093 --> 00:16:38.030
- God encourages all of us as christians to manage
- 00:16:38.030 --> 00:16:41.700
- Our money well so we can be a blessing to our families
- 00:16:41.700 --> 00:16:45.504
- And to others.
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- Greg: think about the first martyr of the church, a young
- 00:17:34.386 --> 00:17:38.490
- Courageous man named stephen.
- 00:17:38.490 --> 00:17:42.094
- He was called before the sanhedrin, which was sort
- 00:17:42.094 --> 00:17:44.763
- Of like the supreme court of the day.
- 00:17:44.763 --> 00:17:48.767
- And they were gonna rule on what he said, and if he was, you
- 00:17:48.767 --> 00:17:53.338
- Know, a clever young man, he might have just said a few words
- 00:17:53.338 --> 00:17:56.041
- And gone home for dinner, but he saw it as a great opportunity
- 00:17:56.041 --> 00:17:58.911
- To preach the gospel.
- 00:17:58.911 --> 00:18:00.879
- And the bible says as he stood before them, his face was
- 00:18:00.879 --> 00:18:04.016
- Like that of an angel.
- 00:18:04.016 --> 00:18:06.218
- His face was radiant, and you wonder what does that look like?
- 00:18:06.218 --> 00:18:09.521
- I remember years ago, cathy and i were
- 00:18:09.521 --> 00:18:11.457
- With billy and ruth graham and--
- 00:18:11.457 --> 00:18:15.160
- And ruth was not long for this world.
- 00:18:15.160 --> 00:18:17.996
- She was very ill.
- 00:18:17.996 --> 00:18:19.431
- She preceded billy to heaven by a few years.
- 00:18:19.431 --> 00:18:22.601
- She was in a wheelchair, and they were sitting there.
- 00:18:22.601 --> 00:18:25.604
- And billy asked dennis to play a song, so dennis pulled out his
- 00:18:25.604 --> 00:18:28.941
- Guitar and started playing what we call the hallelujah chorus
- 00:18:28.941 --> 00:18:32.611
- From handel's messiah.
- 00:18:32.611 --> 00:18:34.680
- And i watched them as he was playing this song, and they were
- 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:37.850
- Kind of gazing into each other's eyes, they were having this
- 00:18:37.850 --> 00:18:40.252
- Special moment.
- 00:18:40.252 --> 00:18:41.854
- It was so sweet, really.
- 00:18:41.854 --> 00:18:43.522
- And ruth was like glowing.
- 00:18:43.522 --> 00:18:46.492
- And i thought it was so amazing 'cause she was very ill, but
- 00:18:46.492 --> 00:18:49.027
- It's almost like she was radiating light or something.
- 00:18:49.027 --> 00:18:52.498
- I was looking and, "wow."
- 00:18:52.498 --> 00:18:54.099
- And then after the song was done, billy turned to ruth and
- 00:18:54.099 --> 00:18:56.368
- Said, "that was the song they played on our first date."
- 00:18:56.368 --> 00:19:00.772
- 'cause billy took her to see handel's messiah.
- 00:19:00.772 --> 00:19:04.109
- And i thought that was so beautiful, but when i think of
- 00:19:04.109 --> 00:19:06.411
- Someone's face shining like an angel, i remember ruth,
- 00:19:06.411 --> 00:19:10.082
- You know?
- 00:19:10.082 --> 00:19:11.750
- And that stephen, his face is shining like an angel, and then
- 00:19:11.750 --> 00:19:16.021
- We read in acts 7:55, "stephen, full of the holy spirit, gazed
- 00:19:16.021 --> 00:19:19.725
- Steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of god, and saw jesus
- 00:19:19.725 --> 00:19:23.629
- Standing in the place of honor at god's right hand.
- 00:19:23.629 --> 00:19:26.098
- And he said, 'hey, i see the heavens opened and the son of
- 00:19:26.098 --> 00:19:29.601
- Man standing in the place of honor at god's right hand!'"
- 00:19:29.601 --> 00:19:33.372
- Oh, that just ticked them off.
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- They started screaming.
- 00:19:35.741 --> 00:19:37.242
- They put their hands over their ears, and as they stoned him--
- 00:19:37.242 --> 00:19:42.447
- And you have to understand how horrible it is to die
- 00:19:42.447 --> 00:19:45.083
- From stoning, 'cause it's not immediate.
- 00:19:45.083 --> 00:19:47.686
- It's a long, painful, horrific process.
- 00:19:47.686 --> 00:19:51.323
- "as they stoned him, stephen prayed,
- 00:19:51.323 --> 00:19:54.059
- 'lord jesus, receive my spirit.'
- 00:19:54.059 --> 00:19:56.228
- And he fell to his knees,
- 00:19:56.228 --> 00:19:57.696
- "lord, don't charge them with this sin!"
- 00:19:57.696 --> 00:19:59.598
- And with that, he fell asleep.
- 00:19:59.598 --> 00:20:02.801
- He died a violent death, but he fell asleep.
- 00:20:02.801 --> 00:20:06.505
- That phrase "falling asleep" is often used in the bible
- 00:20:06.505 --> 00:20:09.808
- To describe death.
- 00:20:09.808 --> 00:20:11.376
- It's another way of saying someone died.
- 00:20:11.376 --> 00:20:13.912
- But that is only used of the death of the christian.
- 00:20:13.912 --> 00:20:17.282
- The phrase "they fell asleep" is never used of the death
- 00:20:17.282 --> 00:20:21.119
- Of a nonbeliever, only of the believer.
- 00:20:21.119 --> 00:20:23.288
- So think about this.
- 00:20:23.288 --> 00:20:25.624
- You know, falling asleep is not the worst thing that can happen,
- 00:20:25.624 --> 00:20:27.893
- Is it?
- 00:20:27.893 --> 00:20:29.394
- Fact, you kinda look forward to it, especially
- 00:20:29.394 --> 00:20:30.796
- As you get a little older.
- 00:20:30.796 --> 00:20:32.864
- You know, when you're young, "i don't wanna sleep.
- 00:20:32.864 --> 00:20:34.366
- Take a nap?
- 00:20:34.366 --> 00:20:35.767
- No, no, hate naps."
- 00:20:35.767 --> 00:20:37.402
- When you're older, it's like, "go take a nap."
- 00:20:37.402 --> 00:20:39.071
- "yes, nap."
- 00:20:39.071 --> 00:20:44.042
- So, that's a beautiful picture of what happens to the believer
- 00:20:44.109 --> 00:20:49.114
- Who keeps his eyes on the lord, giving us the courage.
- 00:20:49.114 --> 00:20:52.451
- Number five: be trusting, be trusting.
- 00:20:52.451 --> 00:20:57.489
- And think of the example of job, verse 11.
- 00:20:57.489 --> 00:20:59.791
- For instance, you know about job, a man of great endurance.
- 00:20:59.791 --> 00:21:02.594
- You can see how the lord was kind to him in the end,
- 00:21:02.594 --> 00:21:05.697
- For the lord is full of tenderness and mercy.
- 00:21:05.697 --> 00:21:08.900
- Job's story begins in heaven as god is bragging
- 00:21:08.900 --> 00:21:14.539
- On his faithful servant.
- 00:21:14.539 --> 00:21:16.642
- It is believed by many that job is the oldest book of the bible,
- 00:21:16.642 --> 00:21:19.978
- Meaning it was the first book of the bible written,
- 00:21:19.978 --> 00:21:22.948
- Even before genesis.
- 00:21:22.948 --> 00:21:25.083
- So, here's the lord and the angels are appearing before him,
- 00:21:25.083 --> 00:21:29.421
- And satan is among them because satan is a fallen angel also
- 00:21:29.421 --> 00:21:32.624
- Known as lucifer, and god starts bragging on his servant job.
- 00:21:32.624 --> 00:21:36.862
- "have you considered my servant job?"
- 00:21:36.862 --> 00:21:39.131
- Says the lord, "a perfect and upright man, one that fears god
- 00:21:39.131 --> 00:21:42.467
- And shuns evil."
- 00:21:42.467 --> 00:21:44.569
- The devil says, "oh," this is paraphrased, "give me a break.
- 00:21:44.569 --> 00:21:48.373
- Give me a little time with job.
- 00:21:48.373 --> 00:21:51.243
- You know, remove that wall you've put around him and we'll
- 00:21:51.243 --> 00:21:53.845
- See what he's really made of.
- 00:21:53.845 --> 00:21:55.380
- I'm telling you right now, he'll curse you to your face."
- 00:21:55.380 --> 00:21:58.784
- And the lord said, "all right, go ahead."
- 00:21:58.784 --> 00:22:01.019
- So here's job back on planet earth.
- 00:22:01.019 --> 00:22:02.854
- He's living the godly life, he's doin' everything he should do,
- 00:22:02.854 --> 00:22:05.991
- So much so, god's braggin' on him.
- 00:22:05.991 --> 00:22:07.959
- By the way, i've thought when i read that verse, "lord, if you
- 00:22:07.959 --> 00:22:10.896
- For a fleeting moment are feeling proud of me and satan's
- 00:22:10.896 --> 00:22:13.865
- Around, don't say anything."
- 00:22:13.865 --> 00:22:18.236
- Here's job, the righteous man, living the godly life, and all
- 00:22:18.236 --> 00:22:21.973
- Of a sudden one tragedy after another comes on him in rapid
- 00:22:21.973 --> 00:22:26.411
- Succession, starting with the loss of his employment, the loss
- 00:22:26.411 --> 00:22:32.017
- Of his property, his livestock, and then worst of all,
- 00:22:32.017 --> 00:22:36.254
- His own children die.
- 00:22:36.254 --> 00:22:39.324
- So did job curse god as satan said he would?
- 00:22:39.324 --> 00:22:42.527
- No, the bible says job came to the lord and said,
- 00:22:42.527 --> 00:22:45.731
- "naked came me into this world.
- 00:22:45.731 --> 00:22:47.899
- Naked will i leave.
- 00:22:47.899 --> 00:22:49.234
- Blessed be the name of the lord."
- 00:22:49.234 --> 00:22:52.838
- Wow. that backfired.
- 00:22:52.838 --> 00:22:55.640
- So, satan said, "i'm not done," and boils came on job.
- 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:59.010
- He was covered in boils.
- 00:22:59.010 --> 00:23:00.812
- Have you ever had a boil?
- 00:23:00.812 --> 00:23:02.447
- You ever lance a boil?
- 00:23:02.447 --> 00:23:04.349
- Eee.
- 00:23:04.349 --> 00:23:05.817
- He's covered in boils, so much so he's scraping them with
- 00:23:05.817 --> 00:23:09.321
- Little bits of broken pottery, and his wife comes to him
- 00:23:09.321 --> 00:23:13.725
- And to add insult to injury, says, "why don't you just curse
- 00:23:13.725 --> 00:23:16.762
- God and die."
- 00:23:16.762 --> 00:23:18.930
- Job said, "you didn't say that when you were drivin'
- 00:23:18.930 --> 00:23:20.899
- The mercedes."
- 00:23:20.899 --> 00:23:23.368
- He didn't say that, but i mean, seriously?
- 00:23:23.368 --> 00:23:25.537
- Thank you, mrs. job, for those encouraging words.
- 00:23:25.537 --> 00:23:29.741
- See, the problem with job is he had never read the book of job.
- 00:23:29.741 --> 00:23:34.846
- If he read it, he would know there's all these heavenly
- 00:23:34.846 --> 00:23:36.715
- Happenings affecting him on earth.
- 00:23:36.715 --> 00:23:39.684
- And in the same way, we don't know what's going on in heaven
- 00:23:39.684 --> 00:23:42.721
- When things happen in life that don't make sense, but job passes
- 00:23:42.721 --> 00:23:46.291
- The test with flying colors.
- 00:23:46.291 --> 00:23:49.661
- Well, in the end, god gave him everything back.
- 00:23:49.661 --> 00:23:52.431
- He had double everything he had before, except his children.
- 00:23:52.431 --> 00:23:56.301
- He was not given the children that died back, but he hoped
- 00:23:56.301 --> 00:24:00.772
- And believed he would see them again.
- 00:24:00.772 --> 00:24:02.774
- Job had an amazing insight into the future when he writes in job
- 00:24:02.774 --> 00:24:06.611
- 19, "as for me, i know my redeemer lives, and he will
- 00:24:06.611 --> 00:24:10.749
- Stand on the earth at last.
- 00:24:10.749 --> 00:24:12.984
- And after my body is decayed, in my body i will see god."
- 00:24:12.984 --> 00:24:16.421
- Wow!
- 00:24:16.421 --> 00:24:18.056
- Job knew messiah was coming.
- 00:24:18.056 --> 00:24:19.958
- "i know my redeemer lives, and he'll stand on the earth,
- 00:24:19.958 --> 00:24:23.061
- And i know in my flesh i will see god."
- 00:24:23.061 --> 00:24:25.030
- Let me go back to 1 thessalonians 4.
- 00:24:25.030 --> 00:24:27.466
- The bible teaches something that we call a bodily resurrection.
- 00:24:27.466 --> 00:24:30.936
- What does that mean?
- 00:24:30.936 --> 00:24:33.271
- That means when your body is buried, it's gonna come out of
- 00:24:33.271 --> 00:24:36.441
- The grave again one day.
- 00:24:36.441 --> 00:24:38.543
- Going back to 1 thessalonians 4, it says the lord, there'll be a
- 00:24:38.543 --> 00:24:43.315
- Shout from heaven, the voice of the archangel.
- 00:24:43.315 --> 00:24:45.917
- The dead in christ will rise first--those are our loved ones
- 00:24:45.917 --> 00:24:49.988
- That are in the grave--and we'll be caught up together with them
- 00:24:49.988 --> 00:24:53.592
- In the clouds, and so shall we ever be with the lord.
- 00:24:53.592 --> 00:24:55.994
- So, when you have a loved one who has died--let me take
- 00:24:55.994 --> 00:24:58.597
- A quick poll, how many of you have a loved one in heaven?
- 00:24:58.597 --> 00:25:01.466
- Raise your hand.
- 00:25:01.466 --> 00:25:02.868
- Okay, they're in heaven right now, but they don't have their
- 00:25:02.868 --> 00:25:06.204
- New glorified body yet.
- 00:25:06.204 --> 00:25:09.107
- And they're gonna receive their glorified body, when?
- 00:25:09.107 --> 00:25:11.576
- At the rapture of the church.
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- They'll rise, they'll be caught up to meet the lord,
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- The new body's given to them, then we're reunited in heaven.
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- And that is why, paul goes on to say, "therefore comfort one
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- Another with these words."
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- Back to job.
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- "i know in my flesh i'll see god."
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- You're gonna see your loved ones again.
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- And you'll recognize them because the new body's connected
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- To the old body.
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- I think sometimes we think in heaven we'll be a different
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- Person with no memories.
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- Not at all.
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- You'll remember things from earth.
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- And you'll recognize one another.
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- Because i've been asked the question, "will we recognize one
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- Another in heaven?"
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- And my response is, "do you think you'll be more stupid in
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- Heaven than you were on earth?"
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- You won't be.
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- You'll know more, not less.
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- Yes, you'll recognize one another, but you're gonna see
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- The glorified version of greg, with lots of hair,
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- Or maybe no hair.
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- What if the glorified state is the absence of hair?
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- Ever thought about that?
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- These are the thoughts of a bald man.
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- Anyway, whatever it is, it'll be awesome.
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- It'll be great.
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- I'm not really concerned about it.
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- So, what are we to do as we await the coming of the lord?
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- Number one, be patient.
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- The notes are on the screen if you're taking notes.
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- Be patient.
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- Number two, as much as possible, stand in unity
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- With fellow christians.
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- Verse 9, "don't grumble, don't complain, tearing others down."
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- Number three, be aware of the afterlife.
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- Keep your eyes on heaven.
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- Verse 9.
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- Number four, be courageous.
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- Verse 2.
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- And then number five, be trusting.
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- Remember the example of job.
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- Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest
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