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Greg Laurie - What Is The Rapture?

January 9, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - What Is The Rapture?
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - What Is The Rapture? | January 9, 2026
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  • Greg laurie: we decide in this life where we will spend
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  • The afterlife.
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  • You don't decide later; you decide now.
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  • And there's only two ways we're gonna leave this world: either
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  • Through death or rapture.
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  • So the bible says, "prepare to meet your god."
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  • You wanna be ready to meet god.
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  • Are you ready to meet god?
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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: heard about a sunday school teacher that was teaching
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  • Her six-year-olds about how to get to heaven.
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  • She wanted to make sure the kids were understanding what she
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  • Was saying.
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  • So she turned to the class and said, "now kids, let me ask you
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  • A question.
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  • If i sold my house and had a big garage sale and gave all my
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  • Money away to poor people, would that get me to heaven?"
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  • The kids said, "no."
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  • And the teacher said, "how about this?
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  • If i cleaned the church every day and mowed the church lawn,
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  • Would that get me to heaven?"
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  • "no," the kids said.
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  • "well, what if i gave candy to all the other children and i was
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  • Kind to animals, would that get me to heaven?"
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  • Again, the kids said, "no."
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  • So the teacher asked, "then how do i get to heaven?"
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  • A little boy in the back yelled out, "you have to die first."
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  • Pretty accurate, right?
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  • So death in the bible does not mean annihilation, meaning that
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  • We cease to exist, it means separation, we're moving from
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  • One place to another.
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  • When we die, we leave this life and we go to the afterlife.
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  • If we're a christian, we go immediately into god's presence.
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  • If we're not a christian, we go and face an ultimate judgment.
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  • You know, it's interesting that the bible describes death for
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  • The christian as falling asleep.
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  • And by the way, it only describes death for the
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  • Christian as falling asleep.
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  • Our body goes into the ground, but the bible promises a
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  • Resurrection of the physical body.
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  • It was job who said, "i know that in my flesh i will
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  • See god."
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  • I read about a tombstone in london that had these words
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  • Inscribed on it, and i quote, "here lies the body of solomon
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  • Peas under the grass and under the trees, but peas is not here
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  • Only the pod.
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  • Peas shelled out and went to god."
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  • And that's pretty accurate.
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  • And when our bodies go into the ground, we wait, we're waiting
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  • For the resurrection.
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  • The first resurrection, as the bible calls it, also known as
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  • The rapture.
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  • Now, i believe the rapture is the next event on the
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  • Prophetic calendar.
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  • It could happen at any moment.
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  • It could happen today, it could happen tonight, it could happen
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  • Tomorrow, or it could happen ten years from now.
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  • Following the rapture where we have the emergence of this
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  • Mysterious figure that the bible calls the beast or
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  • The antichrist.
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  • He inaugurates a period that's coming on the earth known as the
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  • Great tribulation period that culminates in the battle of
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  • Armageddon, fought in the valley of megiddo, and then christ
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  • Returns and establishes his kingdom on earth and answers the
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  • Prayer that the church has been praying for 2000 years, which is
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  • "thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is
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  • In heaven."
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  • I think even non-believers are concerned right now about the
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  • State of our world.
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  • The stakes are higher as we're experiencing what the bible
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  • Describes as a time where there is distress of nations with no
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  • Way out.
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  • Even secular futurologists are sounding the alarms as they see
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  • Converging lines of danger and instability around the world.
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  • It's an alarming thing when you hear a world leader use the word
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  • Armageddon in a sentence, and we actually see that happening.
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  • I don't know if you've heard about something that is known as
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  • The atomic clock kept by the bulletin of atomic scientists,
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  • Also known as the doomsday clock.
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  • So depending on how dangerous things are in the world, it's
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  • Either moved forwards or it's moved back.
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  • By the way, it's the closest it's ever been to midnight.
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  • They literally have it set at this 90 seconds 'til midnight.
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  • And there was a quote by a woman named rachel bronson, president
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  • Of the bulletin of the atomic scientists who said, quote,
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  • "russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind
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  • The world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention,
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  • Or calculation is a terrible risk.
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  • The possibilities that this conflict can spin out of
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  • Anyone's control remains high."
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  • So we talk about the end of the world.
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  • Now, when we use that phrase, we're not saying that the world
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  • Will cease to exist, but we're saying that this present age of
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  • Wickedness under the control of satan, who is described as the
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  • God of this world, that will come to an end; there's a better
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  • World coming.
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  • Our best days are ultimately ahead of us when christ comes
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  • Back and establishes his kingdom.
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  • And many americans believe this could happen in their lifetime.
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  • More than half of all americans believe jesus will return to
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  • Earth someday.
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  • Over half of americans believe in this event commonly called
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  • The rapture.
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  • In fact, 55% believe, quote, "the rapture, they believe that
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  • They will be taken to heaven in the rapture."
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  • And so there's a greater awareness of these things.
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  • And by the way, one of the signs of the end times is a greater
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  • Awareness of an understanding of bible prophecy.
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  • In the book of daniel chapter 12 verse 4, we read, "daniel keep
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  • This prophecy a secret, seal up the book until the time of
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  • The end.
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  • Many will rush here and there and knowledge will increase."
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  • God is saying that in the last days, knowledge will increase,
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  • And also i think an awareness of what scripture teaches about end
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  • Times events will increase as well.
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  • And so we're living in that time that i believe is known as the
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  • End of days.
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  • The bible is the one book that dares to predict the future, not
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  • Once, not twice, but hundreds of times with 100% accuracy, and
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  • The bible tells us that the age is coming ultimately to a close.
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  • Okay, so with that in mind, let's make a few points about
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  • The rapture.
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  • Let's start with this one, point number one, what is the rapture?
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  • The rapture is that moment when christ descends from heaven and
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  • We're caught up to meet him.
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  • It is at this moment that we receive our new resurrection
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  • Bodies and it's also at this moment that we are reunited with
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  • Loved ones who have preceded us.
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  • The rapture is the first phase of the return of christ, as i've
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  • Already said, it happens before anti-christ is revealed.
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  • So why is there a rapture?
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  • Why?
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  • Paul talks about this in 1 thessalonians 4.
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  • The believers in thessalonica were concerned about loved ones
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  • Who had died.
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  • They wondered if they would ever see them again, they were filled
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  • With sorrow and grief.
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  • And so paul gave them these words to reassure them.
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  • In fact, he says in 1 thessalonians 4:13, "we don't
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  • Want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have
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  • Died, so that you will grieve as those, who have no hope."
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  • So guys, listen, it's okay, i wanna comfort you and i wanna
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  • Give you a heavenly perspective on what happens to loved ones
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  • Who believe in jesus when they die.
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  • You're going to see them again.
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  • So i want to establish that fact, and i don't want you to
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  • Grieve like people who have no hope.
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  • But here's another thing i would point out, he says, "i don't
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  • Want you to be ignorant about these things."
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  • Sometimes people say, "we don't need to study end times events,
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  • No one can figure it out anyway."
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  • That's not true.
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  • We should study end times events and we need to understand what
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  • They mean to us today.
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  • Again paul says, "i don't want you to be ignorant."
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  • Jesus said, "when you see the abomination of desolation spoken
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  • Of by daniel the prophet let the reader understand."
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  • So he's talking about an event that's coming that i'll deal
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  • With next time called the abomination of desolation.
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  • But the key here is he says, "let the reader understand."
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  • So it is important that we understand these things and also
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  • I think when we understand prophetic teaching or
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  • Eschatology, the study of last things as it's sometimes called,
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  • If we understand it as we ought to, it will bring hope to us,
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  • Because paul says in 1 thessalonians 4:18, "therefore
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  • Comfort one another with these words."
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  • When you lose a loved one, it changes your world, doesn't it?
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  • How many of you have someone that you love that's a christian
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  • That has died and gone on to heaven?
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  • Raise your hand.
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  • That's pretty much everyone.
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  • Now you think about them probably quite often.
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  • Some of you think about them all the time, and you miss them, and
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  • You have sorrow in your heart.
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  • And sometimes well-meaning, but misdirected christians might
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  • Say, "don't cry, they're in heaven."
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  • Well, i actually think you should cry.
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  • I think the depth of your sorrow is an indication of the depth of
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  • Your love.
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  • I mean, when i die you better at least shed one or two tears,
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  • Come on.
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  • I mean this is a way of saying i care about that person.
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  • And the bible even says, "there's a time to mourn."
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  • There's a time for that, it's important.
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  • I think it's a process of letting go and committing it
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  • To god.
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  • But we don't mourn like those who have no hope.
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  • The christian does not mourn hopelessly.
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  • The christian mourns hopefully.
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  • So though i mourn, though i miss the person that has gone on
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  • Before me, i also mourn with hope because i know i will see
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  • Them again, and i know they're not just a part of my past; i
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  • Also know they're a part of my future.
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  • Greg: hey, have you ever heard the term "rapture" before,
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  • As in the rapture of the church?
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  • Now some will say, "you know, you can't find the word
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  • 'rapture' in the bible."
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  • That's true; but then again, you can't find the word "bible" in
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  • The bible or the word "trinity" in the bible.
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  • Clearly the trinity is taught in scripture.
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  • Actually, you can find the word rapture if you have a latin
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  • Translation because rapture is a translation of the word
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  • "rapturos," which is actually a translation of the greek
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  • Word "harpazô."
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  • And that word you find many times in the bible.
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  • Paul talks about it in 1 thessalonians 4 when he says,
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  • "the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, and
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  • The voice of the archangel, and the dead in christ will be
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  • Caught up," it's that greek word "harpazô."
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  • That word appears many other times in the new testament,
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  • As well.
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  • It means to be taken suddenly.
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  • There is a generation that will not see death, that will be
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  • Going about their business, and one day they will be caught up
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  • To meet the lord in the air, and this is gonna be the great
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  • Reunion when believers are gonna be reunited with other believers
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  • Who have proceeded them to heaven, because the bible says
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  • That they will be raised from their graves, and we will be
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  • Caught up together in the clouds with them.
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  • And then paul writes, "so comfort one another with
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  • These words."
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  • So we need to be ready for the lord's return.
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  • It can happen in a moment.
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  • The bible says in the twinkling of an eye.
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  • So be ready, jesus is coming, pass it on.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: so here's how it's gonna work.
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  • You're just gonna be going about your business; and in a moment,
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  • That will happen so quickly, you can't really measure it in human
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  • Time, you're gonna be caught up to be reunited with your loved
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  • Ones again.
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  • Mothers and fathers will be reunited with sons
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  • And daughters.
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  • Husbands will be reunited with wives and wives with husbands,
  • 00:13:04.682 --> 00:13:08.586
  • Children reunited with their parents, siblings reunited,
  • 00:13:08.586 --> 00:13:12.991
  • Friends reunited, your sorrow immediately vanishes and is
  • 00:13:12.991 --> 00:13:16.961
  • Replaced by ecstatic joy.
  • 00:13:16.961 --> 00:13:19.931
  • Describing this same event that we call the rapture, paul says
  • 00:13:19.931 --> 00:13:23.668
  • In 1 thessalonians, "don't be uninformed, for we do not grieve
  • 00:13:23.668 --> 00:13:30.175
  • Like those who have no hope."
  • 00:13:30.175 --> 00:13:33.611
  • So he knows this is gonna be an event that will happen and he
  • 00:13:33.611 --> 00:13:35.947
  • Describes it in 1 corinthians 15:51, "i tell you a mystery: we
  • 00:13:35.947 --> 00:13:41.119
  • Will not all sleep, we'll be changed in a moment, in the
  • 00:13:41.119 --> 00:13:44.622
  • Twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
  • 00:13:44.622 --> 00:13:47.025
  • For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be
  • 00:13:47.025 --> 00:13:49.227
  • Raised incorruptible."
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  • The twinkling of an eye.
  • 00:13:51.162 --> 00:13:53.031
  • How long does it take for an eye to twinkle?
  • 00:13:53.031 --> 00:13:57.402
  • It comes from the greek word "atomos."
  • 00:13:57.402 --> 00:14:00.872
  • It's about 1000th of a second.
  • 00:14:00.872 --> 00:14:04.175
  • And so people might say, "well, i'll just accept christ when the
  • 00:14:04.175 --> 00:14:06.845
  • Rapture happens."
  • 00:14:06.845 --> 00:14:08.813
  • Hmm, you better be fast.
  • 00:14:08.813 --> 00:14:11.583
  • Let's play that out, okay, the lord just raptured us.
  • 00:14:11.583 --> 00:14:14.285
  • "lord jesus," that took way too long, event's already over with,
  • 00:14:14.285 --> 00:14:18.523
  • You missed it.
  • 00:14:18.523 --> 00:14:21.059
  • No, you will need to be ready ahead of time and be ready to
  • 00:14:21.059 --> 00:14:24.495
  • Meet the lord.
  • 00:14:24.495 --> 00:14:26.431
  • Number three, when is the rapture?
  • 00:14:26.431 --> 00:14:28.833
  • Here's where we get into trouble.
  • 00:14:28.833 --> 00:14:30.702
  • Here's where that problem develops that i identified last
  • 00:14:30.702 --> 00:14:32.971
  • Time as "rapturousnadinus."
  • 00:14:32.971 --> 00:14:38.309
  • By the way, there is no such term, i just made it up.
  • 00:14:38.309 --> 00:14:41.212
  • But to me, rapturousnadinus is when everything is a sign of the
  • 00:14:41.212 --> 00:14:46.718
  • Times, everything is a fulfillment of bible prophecy
  • 00:14:46.718 --> 00:14:50.588
  • And i start losing perspective and then i engage in
  • 00:14:50.588 --> 00:14:53.892
  • Date setting.
  • 00:14:53.892 --> 00:14:56.394
  • We should never do this.
  • 00:14:56.394 --> 00:14:58.496
  • Jesus said, "no man knows the day or the hour when the son of
  • 00:14:58.496 --> 00:15:01.499
  • Man will return."
  • 00:15:01.499 --> 00:15:03.501
  • If we were to go back to the original language it would
  • 00:15:03.501 --> 00:15:05.336
  • Translate out to say, "no man knows the day or the hour when
  • 00:15:05.336 --> 00:15:08.706
  • The son of man will return."
  • 00:15:08.706 --> 00:15:11.309
  • And what it actually means is, no man knows the day or the hour
  • 00:15:11.309 --> 00:15:15.980
  • When the son of man will return.
  • 00:15:15.980 --> 00:15:18.049
  • So when someone says, "i've cracked the code, i know the
  • 00:15:18.049 --> 00:15:20.251
  • Date," i'm telling you it's wrong.
  • 00:15:20.251 --> 00:15:22.887
  • No one knows the date, and we shouldn't worry about the date.
  • 00:15:22.887 --> 00:15:26.124
  • We just need to be ready to be caught up to meet the lord.
  • 00:15:26.124 --> 00:15:31.029
  • And what's gonna happen?
  • 00:15:31.029 --> 00:15:32.864
  • We're gonna be reunited with loved ones.
  • 00:15:32.864 --> 00:15:34.832
  • Again, 1 thessalonians 4, "the dead in christ rise first, and
  • 00:15:34.832 --> 00:15:38.736
  • We which are alive and remaining shall be caught up," "harpazô,"
  • 00:15:38.736 --> 00:15:42.573
  • "together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in
  • 00:15:42.573 --> 00:15:46.744
  • The air."
  • 00:15:46.744 --> 00:15:48.913
  • So, when we die our body goes into the ground, but our soul
  • 00:15:48.913 --> 00:15:51.950
  • Goes into the presence of god.
  • 00:15:51.950 --> 00:15:54.185
  • So if you're wondering where are your loved ones right now, are
  • 00:15:54.185 --> 00:15:56.321
  • They in the grave?
  • 00:15:56.321 --> 00:15:58.022
  • No, they're in heaven, but their body's in the grave.
  • 00:15:58.022 --> 00:16:00.191
  • Yes, god's gonna take care of that later, there's gonna be a
  • 00:16:00.191 --> 00:16:03.127
  • Bodily resurrection.
  • 00:16:03.127 --> 00:16:04.929
  • But for now, their soul is in the presence of god because the
  • 00:16:04.929 --> 00:16:07.632
  • Bible says, "to be absent from the body is to be present with
  • 00:16:07.632 --> 00:16:11.469
  • The lord."
  • 00:16:11.469 --> 00:16:13.538
  • Paul even talked about his struggle with the believers
  • 00:16:13.538 --> 00:16:16.174
  • There and he said, "i have a desire to depart and be with
  • 00:16:16.174 --> 00:16:19.444
  • Christ, which is far better, but it's important for me to be here
  • 00:16:19.444 --> 00:16:23.114
  • With you."
  • 00:16:23.114 --> 00:16:24.916
  • When a believer dies, they go to be with christ, which is
  • 00:16:24.916 --> 00:16:27.051
  • Far better.
  • 00:16:27.051 --> 00:16:28.820
  • But then there is coming the day when god will resurrect their
  • 00:16:28.820 --> 00:16:31.322
  • Physical bodies.
  • 00:16:31.322 --> 00:16:34.258
  • It's amazing.
  • 00:16:34.258 --> 00:16:36.060
  • Let me ask you this: if you knew somehow--we couldn't know this,
  • 00:16:36.060 --> 00:16:38.396
  • But let's say for the sake of a point we could.
  • 00:16:38.396 --> 00:16:41.299
  • If you knew somehow that jesus was coming back today at
  • 00:16:41.299 --> 00:16:46.104
  • 3 o'clock in the afternoon, i think we would all be living,
  • 00:16:46.104 --> 00:16:50.942
  • Breathing saints at 2:45.
  • 00:16:50.942 --> 00:16:53.311
  • Don't you?
  • 00:16:53.311 --> 00:16:55.346
  • We'd be wearing our sunday morning smiles and our come
  • 00:16:55.346 --> 00:16:58.850
  • Quickly jesus attitude.
  • 00:16:58.850 --> 00:17:01.919
  • "wow, 15 minutes and it's gonna happen."
  • 00:17:01.919 --> 00:17:04.789
  • But we don't know when that day's going to be.
  • 00:17:04.789 --> 00:17:07.291
  • So we need to live every day as though it could be the day that
  • 00:17:07.291 --> 00:17:10.261
  • Christ returns.
  • 00:17:10.261 --> 00:17:12.730
  • The great evangelist d.l. moody was once asked the question,
  • 00:17:12.730 --> 00:17:15.633
  • "moody, if you knew that christ would return tonight, how would
  • 00:17:15.633 --> 00:17:19.837
  • You spend the rest of the day?"
  • 00:17:19.837 --> 00:17:22.540
  • Moody replied, and i quote, "i wouldn't do anything different
  • 00:17:22.540 --> 00:17:25.510
  • Than i do every day," end quote.
  • 00:17:25.510 --> 00:17:28.513
  • That's how we ought to live.
  • 00:17:28.513 --> 00:17:30.448
  • So here now are the words of jesus to people who are waiting
  • 00:17:30.448 --> 00:17:34.285
  • For the return of the lord and what we ought to be doing and
  • 00:17:34.285 --> 00:17:37.355
  • What we ought to not be doing.
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  • Let's read luke chapter 12, i'm gonna start with verse 36.
  • 00:17:39.757 --> 00:17:44.328
  • I'm reading from the new living translation.
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  • Jesus says, "be dressed for service, keep your lamps
  • 00:17:46.998 --> 00:17:50.134
  • Burning, as though you are waiting for your master return
  • 00:17:50.134 --> 00:17:53.805
  • From the wedding feast.
  • 00:17:53.805 --> 00:17:55.573
  • Then you will be ready to open the door and let him in the
  • 00:17:55.573 --> 00:17:58.476
  • Moment he arrives and knocks.
  • 00:17:58.476 --> 00:18:01.012
  • The servants who are ready and waiting for his return will
  • 00:18:01.012 --> 00:18:03.214
  • Be rewarded.
  • 00:18:03.214 --> 00:18:05.316
  • I tell you the truth, he himself will seat them, put on an apron
  • 00:18:05.316 --> 00:18:08.186
  • And serve them as they sit and eat!
  • 00:18:08.186 --> 00:18:11.622
  • He may come in the middle of the night or just before dawn.
  • 00:18:11.622 --> 00:18:14.559
  • But whenever he comes, he will reward the servants who
  • 00:18:14.559 --> 00:18:17.462
  • Are ready.
  • 00:18:17.462 --> 00:18:19.697
  • Understand this: if a homeowner knew exactly when a burglar was
  • 00:18:19.697 --> 00:18:21.866
  • Coming, he would not permit his house to be broken into."
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  • We'll stop there.
  • 00:18:26.137 --> 00:18:28.139
  • Now it's hard for us to wrap our mind around what jesus is saying
  • 00:18:28.139 --> 00:18:31.409
  • 'cause this is a first century wedding.
  • 00:18:31.409 --> 00:18:34.378
  • Weddings back in those days were a lot different than they
  • 00:18:34.378 --> 00:18:37.014
  • Are today.
  • 00:18:37.014 --> 00:18:39.517
  • For instance, a wedding today may last for, you know,
  • 00:18:39.517 --> 00:18:42.854
  • 2 hours at the most, and they can cost a lot of money,
  • 00:18:42.854 --> 00:18:47.792
  • Thousands, sometimes even millions of dollars.
  • 00:18:47.792 --> 00:18:51.028
  • Point number four, "we should be anxiously awaiting his return."
  • 00:18:51.028 --> 00:18:55.933
  • Anxiously awaiting his return.
  • 00:18:55.933 --> 00:18:57.969
  • Verse 36, "be like those who wait for their master, who will
  • 00:18:57.969 --> 00:19:00.905
  • Return from the wedding and they will open to him immediately."
  • 00:19:00.905 --> 00:19:05.910
  • Anxiously awaiting his return.
  • 00:19:05.910 --> 00:19:08.913
  • These things that i'm sharing with you right now, if they
  • 00:19:08.913 --> 00:19:11.516
  • Scare you a little bit, if they cause you to be alarmed,
  • 00:19:11.516 --> 00:19:15.153
  • Worried, maybe something's not right in your life spiritually.
  • 00:19:15.153 --> 00:19:19.357
  • But if you get excited and you say, "i can't wait," then that
  • 00:19:19.357 --> 00:19:22.126
  • Would indicate to me, you are where you ought to
  • 00:19:22.126 --> 00:19:24.529
  • Be spiritually.
  • 00:19:24.529 --> 00:19:27.198
  • But you should want to immediately open the door.
  • 00:19:27.198 --> 00:19:30.268
  • Have you ever had someone coming to visit you?
  • 00:19:30.268 --> 00:19:32.770
  • Maybe it was a friend or a relative, and they're coming to
  • 00:19:32.770 --> 00:19:35.740
  • Your house, and they text, "we just landed, and we're getting
  • 00:19:35.740 --> 00:19:38.576
  • Our luggage.
  • 00:19:38.576 --> 00:19:40.711
  • We're in the car, we're on our way, we're in your neighborhood,
  • 00:19:40.711 --> 00:19:43.347
  • We're pulling up to your house."
  • 00:19:43.347 --> 00:19:45.483
  • You can't wait, and you look through the window and here they
  • 00:19:45.483 --> 00:19:47.351
  • Come walking up your stairs and you open the door before they
  • 00:19:47.351 --> 00:19:50.021
  • Can even knock on it.
  • 00:19:50.021 --> 00:19:52.023
  • You're anxiously awaiting their return.
  • 00:19:52.023 --> 00:19:54.325
  • That's how we should be as we look at the imminent return of
  • 00:19:54.325 --> 00:19:57.595
  • Jesus christ.
  • 00:19:57.595 --> 00:19:59.664
  • Point number five, we should not only be waiting, we should also
  • 00:19:59.664 --> 00:20:01.632
  • Be working, working.
  • 00:20:01.632 --> 00:20:04.535
  • Verse 43, "blessed is that servant whom his master will
  • 00:20:04.535 --> 00:20:07.538
  • Find so doing when he comes."
  • 00:20:07.538 --> 00:20:11.342
  • The bible says, "faith without works is dead."
  • 00:20:11.342 --> 00:20:14.712
  • Watching for the lord's return will help us prepare our own
  • 00:20:14.712 --> 00:20:18.316
  • Lives, but working will assure we bring others with us.
  • 00:20:18.316 --> 00:20:23.921
  • And notice he says in verse 43, "blessed is that servant."
  • 00:20:23.921 --> 00:20:27.792
  • The word blessed could be translated, happy is
  • 00:20:27.792 --> 00:20:30.494
  • That servant.
  • 00:20:30.494 --> 00:20:32.763
  • See, it's not a miserable, repressive, confining way to
  • 00:20:32.763 --> 00:20:36.901
  • Live, looking forward to the return of christ; it's something
  • 00:20:36.901 --> 00:20:40.271
  • That's joyful, and that's how we all should be as we wait for him
  • 00:20:40.271 --> 00:20:44.208
  • To come back again.
  • 00:20:44.208 --> 00:20:46.110
  • Now in contrast to this believer who's ready, here's a person who
  • 00:20:46.110 --> 00:20:50.314
  • Appears to be a believer but is not one at all who's not ready.
  • 00:20:50.314 --> 00:20:54.685
  • Look at luke 12 verse 45.
  • 00:20:54.685 --> 00:20:57.288
  • "but if that servant says in his heart, 'my master's delaying his
  • 00:20:57.288 --> 00:21:00.891
  • Coming' and begins to beat the male and female servants and to
  • 00:21:00.891 --> 00:21:04.428
  • Eat and drink and be drunk, the master of the servant will come
  • 00:21:04.428 --> 00:21:07.832
  • In a day when he is not looking for him."
  • 00:21:07.832 --> 00:21:11.068
  • Wow, this person appears to be a believer.
  • 00:21:11.068 --> 00:21:16.207
  • They're called a servant, but they're a disobedient servant.
  • 00:21:16.207 --> 00:21:20.711
  • Saying you're a christian doesn't make you a christian.
  • 00:21:20.711 --> 00:21:23.814
  • Jesus says, "why do you call me lord, lord and not do the things
  • 00:21:23.814 --> 00:21:28.586
  • That i say?"
  • 00:21:28.586 --> 00:21:30.554
  • And there are people today that profess to be christians but are
  • 00:21:30.554 --> 00:21:32.957
  • Living an ungodly life.
  • 00:21:32.957 --> 00:21:35.626
  • This is what's happening here.
  • 00:21:35.626 --> 00:21:37.662
  • But it's interesting that they're called a servant.
  • 00:21:37.662 --> 00:21:39.730
  • Listen to this, one of the easiest places to get a hardened
  • 00:21:39.730 --> 00:21:43.334
  • Heart against god is in the church.
  • 00:21:43.334 --> 00:21:47.672
  • What?
  • 00:21:47.672 --> 00:21:49.674
  • Oh yeah, in the church, because the same son that softens the
  • 00:21:49.674 --> 00:21:52.943
  • Wax, hardens the clay.
  • 00:21:52.943 --> 00:21:55.680
  • The same truth that transforms one life can cause another to
  • 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:59.817
  • Say, "i know this, i've heard this," and you have no
  • 00:21:59.817 --> 00:22:04.121
  • Willingness to make any changes in your life.
  • 00:22:04.121 --> 00:22:07.792
  • Listen, the greatest inoculation against the gospel is the gospel
  • 00:22:07.792 --> 00:22:13.164
  • Heard but not heeded.
  • 00:22:13.164 --> 00:22:16.167
  • So, when you are going to travel overseas, you might get a shot
  • 00:22:16.167 --> 00:22:19.403
  • To be inoculated.
  • 00:22:19.403 --> 00:22:21.939
  • In effect, they put a little bit of that sickness into your body
  • 00:22:21.939 --> 00:22:24.775
  • To build your immunity up for it in case you're exposed to it.
  • 00:22:24.775 --> 00:22:28.045
  • And in the same way you hear the gospel over and over again, and
  • 00:22:28.045 --> 00:22:31.549
  • If you don't respond to it, your heart can actually get hard.
  • 00:22:31.549 --> 00:22:35.019
  • That appears to be the case in the story before us here.
  • 00:22:35.019 --> 00:22:38.489
  • This person has a hard heart.
  • 00:22:38.489 --> 00:22:41.559
  • And verse 47 says, "they know what their master wants, but
  • 00:22:41.559 --> 00:22:44.862
  • They're not prepared to carry out those instructions, and they
  • 00:22:44.862 --> 00:22:48.532
  • Will be punished."
  • 00:22:48.532 --> 00:22:50.468
  • It even says that they're getting drunk.
  • 00:22:50.468 --> 00:22:53.204
  • Some people are living a lifestyle of getting drunk and
  • 00:22:53.204 --> 00:22:55.873
  • Partying and disobeying god.
  • 00:22:55.873 --> 00:22:58.876
  • And you will be caught unaware.
  • 00:22:58.876 --> 00:23:02.146
  • And this is not the way you wanna be living as you wait for
  • 00:23:02.146 --> 00:23:04.448
  • The return of the lord.
  • 00:23:04.448 --> 00:23:06.751
  • So let's conclude, jesus is coming, we need to be ready.
  • 00:23:06.751 --> 00:23:10.121
  • Number one, we should be shining lights in a dark place.
  • 00:23:10.121 --> 00:23:13.657
  • Number two, we should be watching for him.
  • 00:23:13.657 --> 00:23:15.926
  • Number three, we should be ready to go.
  • 00:23:15.926 --> 00:23:18.596
  • Number four, we should be anxiously awaiting his return.
  • 00:23:18.596 --> 00:23:22.733
  • And lastly, we should be working.
  • 00:23:22.733 --> 00:23:26.404
  • What if this were your last day on earth?
  • 00:23:26.404 --> 00:23:29.073
  • What if christ were to come tonight?
  • 00:23:29.073 --> 00:23:32.410
  • "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye caught up to meet the
  • 00:23:32.410 --> 00:23:36.981
  • Lord in the air."
  • 00:23:36.981 --> 00:23:39.550
  • Jesus said, "two will be in the field, one will be taken and the
  • 00:23:39.550 --> 00:23:42.820
  • Other left.
  • 00:23:42.820 --> 00:23:44.455
  • Two will be laying in a bed, one will be taken and the
  • 00:23:44.455 --> 00:23:47.258
  • Other left."
  • 00:23:47.258 --> 00:23:49.093
  • Years ago when we were newly married, kathy and i were lying
  • 00:23:49.093 --> 00:23:52.029
  • In bed.
  • 00:23:52.029 --> 00:23:53.531
  • It's okay, we were married, and we're talking about the rapture.
  • 00:23:53.531 --> 00:23:58.402
  • And kathy says, "greg, imagine how exciting it would be, we
  • 00:23:58.402 --> 00:24:02.006
  • Would be laying here in bed and suddenly we'd be caught up there
  • 00:24:02.006 --> 00:24:05.609
  • Into the presence of the lord."
  • 00:24:05.609 --> 00:24:07.578
  • Can you imagine as she's saying this, i have a devious thought.
  • 00:24:07.578 --> 00:24:11.949
  • I thought it would really be funny to slip quietly out of the
  • 00:24:11.949 --> 00:24:14.952
  • Bed, which i did, and i'm laying on the floor.
  • 00:24:14.952 --> 00:24:18.289
  • She's still talking about it: "greg, just think we'd be in
  • 00:24:18.289 --> 00:24:20.691
  • Heaven together, greg, and we--greg, greg!"
  • 00:24:20.691 --> 00:24:23.994
  • She screams, i'm lying on the floor laughing.
  • 00:24:23.994 --> 00:24:27.465
  • Don't try this at home.
  • 00:24:27.465 --> 00:24:29.967
  • I'm a professional, a professional idiot, but that's a
  • 00:24:29.967 --> 00:24:35.706
  • Joke, but it will happen to a generation of people that one
  • 00:24:35.706 --> 00:24:41.278
  • Will be taken and the other left.
  • 00:24:41.278 --> 00:24:43.347
  • What would happen to you if the lord were to come back?
  • 00:24:43.347 --> 00:24:46.584
  • Would you be taken or would you be left behind?
  • 00:24:46.584 --> 00:24:49.453
  • That's entirely up to us.
  • 00:24:49.453 --> 00:24:51.856
  • As i said earlier, we decide in this life where we will spend
  • 00:24:51.856 --> 00:24:56.160
  • The afterlife.
  • 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.062
  • You don't decide later; you decide now.
  • 00:24:58.062 --> 00:25:00.231
  • And there's only two ways we're gonna leave this world: either
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  • Through death or rapture.
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  • So the bible says, prepare to meet your god.
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  • You wanna be ready to meet god.
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  • Are you ready to meet god?
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  • If christ were to come back tonight, would you be caught up
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  • To meet him in the air, or would you be like one of those wicked
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  • People living a compromised life that would be left behind?
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  • Listen, that can all change, because jesus died on the cross
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  • For your sin, and he paid the price for every wrong you've
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  • Ever done.
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  • And if you'll turn from your sin and put your faith in jesus to
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  • Be your savior and lord, you can be forgiven, and you can be
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  • Given a fresh start, a new beginning.
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  • And jesus rose from the dead three days later, and he stands
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  • Now at the door of our life, and he knocks and says, if you'll
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  • Hear his voice and open the door, he will come in.
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  • Greg: hi, i am greg laurie.
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  • I've got some good news for you: god loves you and god has a plan
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  • For your life.
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  • Here's the problem: we're separated from god by our sin,
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  • Because we've all broken his commandments.
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  • But the good news is, is 2000 years ago god sent his son,
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  • Jesus christ, to die on the cross for your sin and then to
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  • Rise again from the dead.
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  • The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready to come into
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  • Your life right now.
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  • Would you like your sin forgiven?
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  • Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
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  • If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
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  • Just say, "lord jesus, i know i'm a sinner, but i believe
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for my sin.
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  • I turn from my sin now, and i choose to follow you from this
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  • Moment forward."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If you did, god in heaven has
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  • Heard you and i wanna send you
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  • A new testament to start reading.
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  • Greg: i'm excited to announce that here at harvest
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  • We've partnered with our friends at freewill.
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  • Freewill is an easy to use estate planning tool
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  • That allows you to make planned gifts to organizations
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  • Of your choice.
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  • It's a creative opportunity to support the work
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  • We're doing here at harvest ministries.
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  • So as you make your plans, i hope you'll consider
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  • Investing in this ministry so we can continue
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  • To preach the gospel and teach the word of god
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  • For years to come.
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  • You can learn more at freewill.com/harvest.
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