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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - What The Lord's Return Means To You | January 2, 2025
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- Greg: 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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- ♪ 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.
- 00:12:45.674 --> 00:12:47.343
- I will not be judged for what god has called you to do.
- 00:12:47.343 --> 00:12:50.546
- 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.
- 00:12:56.252 --> 00:12:59.622
- Point number four: be courageous, be courageous.
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- Verse 2, "take courage, for the coming of the lord is near.
- 00:13:05.394 --> 00:13:10.399
- The hope of christ coming should give us courage."
- 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:14.937
- Another translation puts it this way: "put iron into your soul."
- 00:13:14.937 --> 00:13:20.009
- I like that.
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- Even another translation says, "be resolute."
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- Be resolute.
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- 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
- 00:13:32.288 --> 00:13:35.424
- To be taken to heaven,
- 00:13:35.424 --> 00:13:36.759
- Jesus resolutely set out for jerusalem."
- 00:13:36.759 --> 00:13:42.097
- What kept jesus going on that day as he carried
- 00:13:42.097 --> 00:13:45.367
- The cross for us?
- 00:13:45.367 --> 00:13:47.069
- After his back had been ripped open with a roman cat of nine
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- Tails most likely.
- 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:53.542
- The people were crying, "crucify him.
- 00:13:53.542 --> 00:13:55.845
- Let his blood be upon us and upon our children."
- 00:13:55.845 --> 00:13:58.647
- His disciples largely were in hiding.
- 00:13:58.647 --> 00:14:01.984
- He's carrying that cross, but yet he pressed on resolutely.
- 00:14:01.984 --> 00:14:06.856
- What kept him going?
- 00:14:06.856 --> 00:14:08.457
- The answer is found in hebrews 12 when it says, "for the joy
- 00:14:08.457 --> 00:14:12.728
- That was set before him, he endured the cross, despising
- 00:14:12.728 --> 00:14:16.732
- The shame, and now is set down on the right hand of god."
- 00:14:16.732 --> 00:14:20.336
- The joy.
- 00:14:20.336 --> 00:14:21.670
- So, something motivated jesus.
- 00:14:21.670 --> 00:14:23.606
- It was the joy set before him.
- 00:14:23.606 --> 00:14:25.641
- What was the joy?
- 00:14:25.641 --> 00:14:27.109
- It was the knowledge that you and me and all of us would
- 00:14:27.109 --> 00:14:30.479
- Believe one day he was dying for our sins, and that made it
- 00:14:30.479 --> 00:14:34.250
- Worth it for christ.
- 00:14:34.250 --> 00:14:35.951
- He had his eyes on the prize.
- 00:14:35.951 --> 00:14:38.554
- He was headed toward the goal, and that's what we need to keep
- 00:14:38.554 --> 00:14:41.624
- Our eyes on as we go through the adversities and hardships and
- 00:14:41.624 --> 00:14:45.127
- Challenges of life.
- 00:14:45.127 --> 00:14:46.996
- Keep your eyes on jesus.
- 00:14:46.996 --> 00:14:48.731
- Keep your eyes on heaven.
- 00:14:48.731 --> 00:14:50.499
- Keep your eyes on eternity.
- 00:14:50.499 --> 00:14:55.871
- Greg: i have a boxing glove here signed by manny pacquiao.
- 00:15:00.075 --> 00:15:04.013
- Now, because i own this glove--by the way,
- 00:15:04.013 --> 00:15:06.815
- Manny's a christian--but because i own this glove,
- 00:15:06.815 --> 00:15:09.551
- This does not make me a boxer.
- 00:15:09.551 --> 00:15:11.720
- It makes me someone that owns a glove that belongs
- 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:14.556
- To a famous boxer.
- 00:15:14.556 --> 00:15:16.258
- I have a football here.
- 00:15:16.258 --> 00:15:17.726
- Owning a football does not make me a quarterback, right?
- 00:15:17.726 --> 00:15:21.797
- And in the same way, owning a bible doesn't make you a
- 00:15:21.797 --> 00:15:24.867
- Christian, it's who you are.
- 00:15:24.867 --> 00:15:27.269
- The bible says, "by their fruit you shall know them."
- 00:15:27.269 --> 00:15:30.372
- My question for you is: if you were arrested for being a
- 00:15:30.372 --> 00:15:33.876
- Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
- 00:15:33.876 --> 00:15:37.446
- By evidence, i don't mean how many bibles you have.
- 00:15:37.446 --> 00:15:40.182
- I have quite a collection of bibles at home,
- 00:15:40.182 --> 00:15:42.418
- Pretty much one for every decade that i've known the lord,
- 00:15:42.418 --> 00:15:46.121
- And i don't throw them away, sometimes i give them away,
- 00:15:46.121 --> 00:15:49.591
- But the point is it's not how many bibles i have,
- 00:15:49.591 --> 00:15:51.827
- It's if the bible has made its way into my heart.
- 00:15:51.827 --> 00:15:54.930
- It's not how you mark your bible,
- 00:15:54.930 --> 00:15:56.865
- It's how your bible marks you.
- 00:15:56.865 --> 00:15:59.368
- It's not even enough to go through the word of god,
- 00:15:59.368 --> 00:16:01.737
- The word of god must go through you.
- 00:16:01.737 --> 00:16:04.640
- The bible says by their fruit you shall know them.
- 00:16:04.640 --> 00:16:06.709
- If people look at your life, your lifestyle,
- 00:16:06.709 --> 00:16:09.645
- Your choices, even your language,
- 00:16:09.645 --> 00:16:11.847
- Can they tell you're a follower of jesus?
- 00:16:11.847 --> 00:16:15.250
- Be someone who's known by their spiritual fruit.
- 00:16:15.250 --> 00:16:18.120
- And don't be someone that pretends to be something you are
- 00:16:18.120 --> 00:16:20.789
- Not, like me pretending i'm a boxer,
- 00:16:20.789 --> 00:16:23.859
- That's called being a poser.
- 00:16:23.859 --> 00:16:25.294
- Don't be a poser.
- 00:16:25.294 --> 00:16:26.729
- Be a follower of jesus christ.
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- Greg: you know, the bible says: "a good person
- 00:16:30.099 --> 00:16:33.102
- Leaves an inheritance for their children's children."
- 00:16:33.102 --> 00:16:37.039
- God encourages all of us as christians to manage
- 00:16:37.039 --> 00:16:40.709
- Our money well so we can be a blessing to our families
- 00:16:40.709 --> 00:16:44.513
- And to others.
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- Greg: think about the first martyr of the church, a young
- 00:17:33.395 --> 00:17:37.499
- Courageous man named stephen.
- 00:17:37.499 --> 00:17:41.103
- He was called before the sanhedrin, which was sort
- 00:17:41.103 --> 00:17:43.772
- Of like the supreme court of the day.
- 00:17:43.772 --> 00:17:47.776
- And they were gonna rule on what he said, and if he was, you
- 00:17:47.776 --> 00:17:52.347
- Know, a clever young man, he might have just said a few words
- 00:17:52.347 --> 00:17:55.050
- And gone home for dinner, but he saw it as a great opportunity
- 00:17:55.050 --> 00:17:57.920
- To preach the gospel.
- 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.888
- And the bible says as he stood before them, his face was
- 00:17:59.888 --> 00:18:03.025
- Like that of an angel.
- 00:18:03.025 --> 00:18:05.227
- His face was radiant, and you wonder what does that look like?
- 00:18:05.227 --> 00:18:08.530
- I remember years ago, cathy and i were
- 00:18:08.530 --> 00:18:10.466
- With billy and ruth graham and--
- 00:18:10.466 --> 00:18:14.169
- And ruth was not long for this world.
- 00:18:14.169 --> 00:18:17.005
- She was very ill.
- 00:18:17.005 --> 00:18:18.440
- She preceded billy to heaven by a few years.
- 00:18:18.440 --> 00:18:21.610
- She was in a wheelchair, and they were sitting there.
- 00:18:21.610 --> 00:18:24.613
- And billy asked dennis to play a song, so dennis pulled out his
- 00:18:24.613 --> 00:18:27.950
- Guitar and started playing what we call the hallelujah chorus
- 00:18:27.950 --> 00:18:31.620
- From handel's messiah.
- 00:18:31.620 --> 00:18:33.689
- And i watched them as he was playing this song, and they were
- 00:18:33.689 --> 00:18:36.859
- Kind of gazing into each other's eyes, they were having this
- 00:18:36.859 --> 00:18:39.261
- Special moment.
- 00:18:39.261 --> 00:18:40.863
- It was so sweet, really.
- 00:18:40.863 --> 00:18:42.531
- And ruth was like glowing.
- 00:18:42.531 --> 00:18:45.501
- And i thought it was so amazing 'cause she was very ill, but
- 00:18:45.501 --> 00:18:48.036
- It's almost like she was radiating light or something.
- 00:18:48.036 --> 00:18:51.507
- I was looking and, "wow."
- 00:18:51.507 --> 00:18:53.108
- And then after the song was done, billy turned to ruth and
- 00:18:53.108 --> 00:18:55.377
- Said, "that was the song they played on our first date."
- 00:18:55.377 --> 00:18:59.781
- 'cause billy took her to see handel's messiah.
- 00:18:59.781 --> 00:19:03.118
- And i thought that was so beautiful, but when i think of
- 00:19:03.118 --> 00:19:05.420
- Someone's face shining like an angel, i remember ruth,
- 00:19:05.420 --> 00:19:09.091
- You know?
- 00:19:09.091 --> 00:19:10.759
- And that stephen, his face is shining like an angel, and then
- 00:19:10.759 --> 00:19:15.030
- We read in acts 7:55, "stephen, full of the holy spirit, gazed
- 00:19:15.030 --> 00:19:18.734
- Steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of god, and saw jesus
- 00:19:18.734 --> 00:19:22.638
- Standing in the place of honor at god's right hand.
- 00:19:22.638 --> 00:19:25.107
- And he said, 'hey, i see the heavens opened and the son of
- 00:19:25.107 --> 00:19:28.610
- Man standing in the place of honor at god's right hand!'"
- 00:19:28.610 --> 00:19:32.381
- Oh, that just ticked them off.
- 00:19:32.381 --> 00:19:34.750
- They started screaming.
- 00:19:34.750 --> 00:19:36.251
- They put their hands over their ears, and as they stoned him--
- 00:19:36.251 --> 00:19:41.456
- And you have to understand how horrible it is to die
- 00:19:41.456 --> 00:19:44.092
- From stoning, 'cause it's not immediate.
- 00:19:44.092 --> 00:19:46.695
- It's a long, painful, horrific process.
- 00:19:46.695 --> 00:19:50.332
- "as they stoned him, stephen prayed,
- 00:19:50.332 --> 00:19:53.068
- 'lord jesus, receive my spirit.'
- 00:19:53.068 --> 00:19:55.237
- And he fell to his knees,
- 00:19:55.237 --> 00:19:56.705
- "lord, don't charge them with this sin!"
- 00:19:56.705 --> 00:19:58.607
- And with that, he fell asleep.
- 00:19:58.607 --> 00:20:01.810
- He died a violent death, but he fell asleep.
- 00:20:01.810 --> 00:20:05.514
- That phrase "falling asleep" is often used in the bible
- 00:20:05.514 --> 00:20:08.817
- To describe death.
- 00:20:08.817 --> 00:20:10.385
- It's another way of saying someone died.
- 00:20:10.385 --> 00:20:12.921
- But that is only used of the death of the christian.
- 00:20:12.921 --> 00:20:16.291
- The phrase "they fell asleep" is never used of the death
- 00:20:16.291 --> 00:20:20.128
- Of a nonbeliever, only of the believer.
- 00:20:20.128 --> 00:20:22.297
- So think about this.
- 00:20:22.297 --> 00:20:24.633
- You know, falling asleep is not the worst thing that can happen,
- 00:20:24.633 --> 00:20:26.902
- Is it?
- 00:20:26.902 --> 00:20:28.403
- Fact, you kinda look forward to it, especially
- 00:20:28.403 --> 00:20:29.805
- As you get a little older.
- 00:20:29.805 --> 00:20:31.873
- You know, when you're young, "i don't wanna sleep.
- 00:20:31.873 --> 00:20:33.375
- Take a nap?
- 00:20:33.375 --> 00:20:34.776
- No, no, hate naps."
- 00:20:34.776 --> 00:20:36.411
- When you're older, it's like, "go take a nap."
- 00:20:36.411 --> 00:20:38.080
- "yes, nap."
- 00:20:38.080 --> 00:20:43.051
- So, that's a beautiful picture of what happens to the believer
- 00:20:43.118 --> 00:20:48.123
- Who keeps his eyes on the lord, giving us the courage.
- 00:20:48.123 --> 00:20:51.460
- Number five: be trusting, be trusting.
- 00:20:51.460 --> 00:20:56.498
- And think of the example of job, verse 11.
- 00:20:56.498 --> 00:20:58.800
- For instance, you know about job, a man of great endurance.
- 00:20:58.800 --> 00:21:01.603
- You can see how the lord was kind to him in the end,
- 00:21:01.603 --> 00:21:04.706
- For the lord is full of tenderness and mercy.
- 00:21:04.706 --> 00:21:07.909
- Job's story begins in heaven as god is bragging
- 00:21:07.909 --> 00:21:13.548
- On his faithful servant.
- 00:21:13.548 --> 00:21:15.651
- It is believed by many that job is the oldest book of the bible,
- 00:21:15.651 --> 00:21:18.987
- Meaning it was the first book of the bible written,
- 00:21:18.987 --> 00:21:21.957
- Even before genesis.
- 00:21:21.957 --> 00:21:24.092
- So, here's the lord and the angels are appearing before him,
- 00:21:24.092 --> 00:21:28.430
- And satan is among them because satan is a fallen angel also
- 00:21:28.430 --> 00:21:31.633
- Known as lucifer, and god starts bragging on his servant job.
- 00:21:31.633 --> 00:21:35.871
- "have you considered my servant job?"
- 00:21:35.871 --> 00:21:38.140
- Says the lord, "a perfect and upright man, one that fears god
- 00:21:38.140 --> 00:21:41.476
- And shuns evil."
- 00:21:41.476 --> 00:21:43.578
- The devil says, "oh," this is paraphrased, "give me a break.
- 00:21:43.578 --> 00:21:47.382
- Give me a little time with job.
- 00:21:47.382 --> 00:21:50.252
- You know, remove that wall you've put around him and we'll
- 00:21:50.252 --> 00:21:52.854
- See what he's really made of.
- 00:21:52.854 --> 00:21:54.389
- I'm telling you right now, he'll curse you to your face."
- 00:21:54.389 --> 00:21:57.793
- And the lord said, "all right, go ahead."
- 00:21:57.793 --> 00:22:00.028
- So here's job back on planet earth.
- 00:22:00.028 --> 00:22:01.863
- He's living the godly life, he's doin' everything he should do,
- 00:22:01.863 --> 00:22:05.000
- So much so, god's braggin' on him.
- 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:06.968
- By the way, i've thought when i read that verse, "lord, if you
- 00:22:06.968 --> 00:22:09.905
- For a fleeting moment are feeling proud of me and satan's
- 00:22:09.905 --> 00:22:12.874
- Around, don't say anything."
- 00:22:12.874 --> 00:22:17.245
- Here's job, the righteous man, living the godly life, and all
- 00:22:17.245 --> 00:22:20.982
- Of a sudden one tragedy after another comes on him in rapid
- 00:22:20.982 --> 00:22:25.420
- Succession, starting with the loss of his employment, the loss
- 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:31.026
- Of his property, his livestock, and then worst of all,
- 00:22:31.026 --> 00:22:35.263
- His own children die.
- 00:22:35.263 --> 00:22:38.333
- So did job curse god as satan said he would?
- 00:22:38.333 --> 00:22:41.536
- No, the bible says job came to the lord and said,
- 00:22:41.536 --> 00:22:44.740
- "naked came me into this world.
- 00:22:44.740 --> 00:22:46.908
- Naked will i leave.
- 00:22:46.908 --> 00:22:48.243
- Blessed be the name of the lord."
- 00:22:48.243 --> 00:22:51.847
- Wow. that backfired.
- 00:22:51.847 --> 00:22:54.649
- So, satan said, "i'm not done," and boils came on job.
- 00:22:54.649 --> 00:22:58.019
- He was covered in boils.
- 00:22:58.019 --> 00:22:59.821
- Have you ever had a boil?
- 00:22:59.821 --> 00:23:01.456
- You ever lance a boil?
- 00:23:01.456 --> 00:23:03.358
- Eee.
- 00:23:03.358 --> 00:23:04.826
- He's covered in boils, so much so he's scraping them with
- 00:23:04.826 --> 00:23:08.330
- Little bits of broken pottery, and his wife comes to him
- 00:23:08.330 --> 00:23:12.734
- And to add insult to injury, says, "why don't you just curse
- 00:23:12.734 --> 00:23:15.771
- God and die."
- 00:23:15.771 --> 00:23:17.939
- Job said, "you didn't say that when you were drivin'
- 00:23:17.939 --> 00:23:19.908
- The mercedes."
- 00:23:19.908 --> 00:23:22.377
- He didn't say that, but i mean, seriously?
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- Thank you, mrs. job, for those encouraging words.
- 00:23:24.546 --> 00:23:28.750
- See, the problem with job is he had never read the book of job.
- 00:23:28.750 --> 00:23:33.855
- If he read it, he would know there's all these heavenly
- 00:23:33.855 --> 00:23:35.724
- Happenings affecting him on earth.
- 00:23:35.724 --> 00:23:38.693
- And in the same way, we don't know what's going on in heaven
- 00:23:38.693 --> 00:23:41.730
- When things happen in life that don't make sense, but job passes
- 00:23:41.730 --> 00:23:45.300
- The test with flying colors.
- 00:23:45.300 --> 00:23:48.670
- Well, in the end, god gave him everything back.
- 00:23:48.670 --> 00:23:51.440
- He had double everything he had before, except his children.
- 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:55.310
- He was not given the children that died back, but he hoped
- 00:23:55.310 --> 00:23:59.781
- And believed he would see them again.
- 00:23:59.781 --> 00:24:01.783
- Job had an amazing insight into the future when he writes in job
- 00:24:01.783 --> 00:24:05.620
- 19, "as for me, i know my redeemer lives, and he will
- 00:24:05.620 --> 00:24:09.758
- Stand on the earth at last.
- 00:24:09.758 --> 00:24:11.993
- And after my body is decayed, in my body i will see god."
- 00:24:11.993 --> 00:24:15.430
- Wow!
- 00:24:15.430 --> 00:24:17.065
- Job knew messiah was coming.
- 00:24:17.065 --> 00:24:18.967
- "i know my redeemer lives, and he'll stand on the earth,
- 00:24:18.967 --> 00:24:22.070
- And i know in my flesh i will see god."
- 00:24:22.070 --> 00:24:24.039
- Let me go back to 1 thessalonians 4.
- 00:24:24.039 --> 00:24:26.475
- The bible teaches something that we call a bodily resurrection.
- 00:24:26.475 --> 00:24:29.945
- What does that mean?
- 00:24:29.945 --> 00:24:32.280
- That means when your body is buried, it's gonna come out of
- 00:24:32.280 --> 00:24:35.450
- The grave again one day.
- 00:24:35.450 --> 00:24:37.552
- Going back to 1 thessalonians 4, it says the lord, there'll be a
- 00:24:37.552 --> 00:24:42.324
- Shout from heaven, the voice of the archangel.
- 00:24:42.324 --> 00:24:44.926
- The dead in christ will rise first--those are our loved ones
- 00:24:44.926 --> 00:24:48.997
- That are in the grave--and we'll be caught up together with them
- 00:24:48.997 --> 00:24:52.601
- In the clouds, and so shall we ever be with the lord.
- 00:24:52.601 --> 00:24:55.003
- So, when you have a loved one who has died--let me take
- 00:24:55.003 --> 00:24:57.606
- A quick poll, how many of you have a loved one in heaven?
- 00:24:57.606 --> 00:25:00.475
- Raise your hand.
- 00:25:00.475 --> 00:25:01.877
- Okay, they're in heaven right now, but they don't have their
- 00:25:01.877 --> 00:25:05.213
- New glorified body yet.
- 00:25:05.213 --> 00:25:08.116
- And they're gonna receive their glorified body, when?
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- 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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