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Greg Laurie - What You Really Are Looking For

January 5, 2026 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - What You Really Are Looking For
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 You Really Are Looking For | January 5, 2026
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg laurie: hi, i'm greg laurie.
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  • You know, for almost 50 years now, i've been giving people the
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  • Good news of the gospel.
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  • That's actually what the word gospel means, good news.
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  • When i was a kid, i was a paper boy.
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  • So i had my super-cool schwinn stingray with a stick shift.
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  • They don't make those anymore, probably for good reason.
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  • They were dangerous actually, but it was fast, and i had my
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  • Bags for my papers, and i got pretty good at throwing those
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  • Papers, the sideways fling, the underhand pass, the hard throw.
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  • Always wanted to get the paper as close to the customer's door
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  • As possible.
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  • My job was not to write the news.
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  • My job was not to make the news.
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  • My job was to deliver the news, and i'm still doing that many
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  • Years later, but now it's the good news of the gospel.
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  • I wanna talk to you about that.
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  • Welcome to "harvest."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: the title of my message is what you really are looking for.
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  • You know, from the moment you were born, you've effectively
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  • Been on a quest.
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  • You've been searching.
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  • Goes back to your childhood, and sooner or later every thinking
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  • Person gets around to asking the big questions in life, such as
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  • What is the meaning of life?
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  • Why am i here on this earth?
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  • Why do i exist?
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  • What happens after i die?
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  • And finally, who let the dogs out?
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  • No, that's a stupid song.
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  • I don't know where they are.
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  • I don't care about the dogs, but we really do get around to
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  • Asking these questions because we are wired by god for
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  • Something more.
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  • The bible says that god has placed eternity in our hearts.
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  • We want to make a mark.
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  • We want our life to count for something.
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  • We want to do something.
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  • We want to have significance, and that's why i think so many
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  • People are so drawn to social media.
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  • I want to get more followers, and i want to be more
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  • Well known.
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  • In fact, i read recently that a poll was taken of young people,
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  • And they were asked what they wanted more than anything else,
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  • And the answer was i want to be rich and famous.
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  • Rich and famous, is that all it's really cracked up to be?
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  • If being rich and being famous was what people thought it was,
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  • Why are there so many miserable rich and famous people?
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  • They're miserable.
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  • You look at so many of them, what's happened?
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  • There's a group of people known as the 27 club.
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  • In fact, i read about that in this new book, "lennon, dylan,
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  • Alice, and jesus."
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  • What's a 27 club?
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  • These are people that unfortunately died at the very
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  • Young age of 27.
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  • Some of the names in that club are jimi hendrix and janis
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  • Joplin and jim morrison.
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  • Others joined the 700 club in later times, like kurt cobain
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  • And amy winehouse.
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  • In fact, of fame, amy winehouse made this statement, and i
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  • Quote, "fame is like terminal cancer.
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  • I wouldn't wish it on anyone," end quote.
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  • And then look at how many lives have been destroyed through
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  • Drugs and alcohol.
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  • Such a long list.
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  • Such a tragic list.
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  • Whitney houston, heath ledger, philip seymour hoffman, michael
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  • Jackson, prince, anna nicole smith, river phoenix, scott
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  • Weiland, corey monteith, elvis presley, most recently taylor
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  • Hawkins from the foo fighters, john belushi, chris farley all
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  • Died of drug overdoses, and then there were those that have taken
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  • Their lives to suicide that reached all the goals people
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  • Would hope to reach.
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  • People like anthony bourdain, chester bennington, chris
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  • Cornell, ernest hemingway, alexander mcqueen, michael
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  • Hutchins, hunter s. thompson, keith speed, the list just goes
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  • On and on.
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  • This emptiness, no, fame is not the answer.
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  • Money is not the answer.
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  • Jesus is the answer.
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  • This is what we're looking for.
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  • [applauding]
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  • I want to tell you a story that's 2,000 years old, but it
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  • Is totally relevant today.
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  • I wanna tell you a story about a young man that had it
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  • All together.
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  • He was wealthy.
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  • He was climbing up the corporate ladder.
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  • He probably had a bmw chariot lowered, super-cool.
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  • Came up to jesus, he was drinking a lavender
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  • Oatmilk latte.
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  • And he asked jesus an important question that we're still asking
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  • Today, and here's what he said.
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  • It's in matthew chapter 19, verse 16.
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  • This man came up to jesus with this question, "teacher, what
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  • Good things must i do to have eternal life?"
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  • Jesus said, "why do you call me good?
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  • What is good?
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  • Only god is good.
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  • But to answer your question, you can have eternal life if you
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  • Keep the commandments."
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  • This rich young ruler asked, "which ones?"
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  • Jesus replied, "do not murder.
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  • Do not commit adultery.
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  • Do not steal.
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  • Do not lie.
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  • Honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor
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  • As yourself."
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  • The man replied, "i've obeyed all these commandments.
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  • What else must i do?"
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  • Jesus said, "if you want to be perfect, go sell all that you
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  • Have, give the money to the poor, and you'll have treasure
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  • In heaven.
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  • Then come and follow me," and when the young man heard this,
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  • He went away sadly because he had many possessions.
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  • You see, this rich young ruler hadn't found what
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  • He was looking for.
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  • So he comes to jesus, "what do i have to do
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  • To find eternal life?"
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  • Jesus says: keep the commandments.
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  • Now, let me point this out.
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  • Keeping the ten commandments will not make you a christian.
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  • If you are a christian, you should seek to keep them, but
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  • Jesus brought this up to show this man that he indeed had
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  • Broken many of those commandments.
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  • So this young guy said, "oh, i've kept all of those since
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  • I've been a kid."
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  • If we would have read in the next verse, and jesus smacked
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  • Him across the face, it would have been relevant.
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  • By the way, it's never good to smack people across the face.
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  • Too soon?
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  • [applauding]
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  • It's also not a good idea to throw water on mike tyson on
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  • An airplane.
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  • Yeah, he was sort of the heavyweight champion of
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  • The world.
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  • I don't think this is gonna end well.
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  • He had not kept the commandments, nor have you.
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  • God did not give us the commandments to make
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  • Us righteous.
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  • He gave us the commandments to show us we're not righteous.
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  • They open our eyes, and they shut our mouths.
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  • Do you keep the ten commandments?
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  • We've all broken them.
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  • Most people don't even know them.
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  • I read a survey revealed more people know the names of the
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  • Four beatles than a single commandment.
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  • Isn't that interesting?
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  • And we say, "well, i've heard some of them."
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  • Like, we know one, you shall not commit murder, and you'll say,
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  • "well, at least i haven't done that."
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  • Well, i hope you haven't, and if you have, please don't raise
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  • Your hand.
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  • No one will want to sit next to you.
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  • But even if you had committed that sin, god would forgive you.
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  • Remember the story in the bible of the thief on the cross?
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  • We call him--actually he was a criminal on the cross.
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  • He was probably a murderer on the cross, because the romans
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  • Did not crucify thieves.
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  • He turned to jesus, and he said, "what must i do?
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  • What must i do," and he said, "remember me, lord, when you
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  • Come into your kingdom."
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  • Jesus said, "truly i say to you, today you will be with me
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  • In paradise."
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  • Man, talk about getting in under the wire.
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  • I may be talking to somebody right now that is hearing their
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  • Last sermon, someone who is not gonna live another day,
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  • Someone's name is gonna end up in that obituary
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  • Column tomorrow.
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  • This could be your moment.
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  • You know, excuse me, it doesn't take years to become
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  • A christian.
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  • It doesn't take months.
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  • It doesn't even take hours.
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  • It can happen in a moment, just like that when you believe
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  • In jesus.
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  • It's not what you do for god, it's what christ has done
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  • For you.
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  • Imagine that thief ending up in heaven like, "who are you?"
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  • He says, "i don't even know how i got here.
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  • I was talking to jesus and a moment ago, and here i am,"
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  • All because of what christ did for him, and christ did the same
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  • For you, but we've broken these commandments.
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  • You say, "well, i haven't murdered anybody."
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  • Well, the fact of the matter is jesus said, "you've heard it
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  • Said you shall not murder, but i say if you have hatred in your
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  • Heart towards someone you've murdered, therefore we're
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  • All murderers."
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  • Oh, you've heard it said jesus said, "you should not commit
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  • Adultery, but i say to you, if you look at a woman," or a man,
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  • "with lust in your heart, you've committed adultery."
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  • We've broken these commandments, and this is the point.
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  • Jesus brought this up so this man would acknowledge that he
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  • Had done this very thing and would see his need for jesus,
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  • And this is what we all need to see, and jesus was giving this
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  • Man a chance to believe.
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  • There's an interesting twist on this story in another gospel.
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  • After he said this, the bible says jesus looked at him and
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  • Loved him.
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  • If you forget everything else i've said to you tonight, i want
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  • You to remember this, god loves you.
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  • He loves you.
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  • God is not mad at you.
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  • He's mad about you.
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  • He wants a relationship with you.
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  • That's what we're talking about.
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  • Folks, this is not about religion.
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  • This is not about just going to church.
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  • This is about having your life transformed by jesus christ
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  • Right here, right now.
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  • It can happen.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, there is a very special group of people i want
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  • To introduce you to.
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  • They are a group of people who are passionate about the gospel
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  • Of jesus christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond.
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  • In fact, these people make possible our radio program, our
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  • Harvest crusades, our evangelistic movies like "jesus
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  • Revolution," and so much more.
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  • Without them, harvest ministries could not even exist.
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  • So, who are these amazing people?
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  • We call them harvest partners.
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  • They are people who have chosen to give monthly to "harvest" to
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  • Keep the gospel moving forward.
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  • Some can only give a little, others can give more, but all of
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  • It makes a big difference.
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  • Jesus said, "'the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers
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  • Are few.
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  • Therefore, pray the lord of the harvest to send out laborers
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  • Into his harvest.'"
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  • Will you become a harvest partner, and help us fulfill the
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  • Great commission in our lifetime?
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  • Let's do this together.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: there's a story in the bible about a father who had two
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  • Sons, and one of the sons ran away from home.
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  • He was tired of his father's rules and regulations.
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  • He thought he could have more fun outside of his father's
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  • House, and jesus said this young man went away to another country
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  • And spent all of his money.
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  • He was impoverished, he lost his money, and he lost his friends.
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  • You know, when you have a lot of money, you'll have a lot of
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  • Friends, but when his money was gone, his friends were gone too.
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  • Reminds me of two guys that were out camping, probably here in
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  • Idaho, and they were getting up in the morning, and one friend
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  • Was putting his running shoes on really quickly, and he said,
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  • "where are you going?"
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  • He goes, "look," and there was a big bear running at them full
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  • Speed, and his buddy said, "you don't think you can outrun the
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  • Bear, do you?"
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  • He says, "i don't need to outrun the bear,
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  • I just need to outrun you," see?
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  • That's how some called-- some so-called friends are.
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  • They walk out when you need them.
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  • They're not there.
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  • So this boy lost all of his friends, and he came to his
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  • Senses, and he said, "i'll just go back home and say, dad,
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  • I've messed up.
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  • I've sinned.
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  • I'm not worthy to be called your son anymore.
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  • Could you just give me a job?
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  • I don't expect to be returned to sonship again."
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  • But jesus, who told this story to show us what god is like,
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  • Said when that boy was still a great ways away, the father saw
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  • Him, got up, and ran to him, and threw his arms around him, and
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  • Kissed him, and said, "let's have a party.
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  • Let's have some barbecue, because my son who was dead
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  • Is alive again, and he who was lost is found,"
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  • And that's how god feels about you right now.
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  • I might be talking to a prodigal son or daughter.
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  • You were raised in the church, you were raised believing, but
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  • You've walked away from god, or never--you've never even had a
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  • Relationship with god perhaps.
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  • You can come back to him, and he will welcome you with open arms.
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  • You want to find out who your real friends are?
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  • Follow jesus christ, and you'll know quickly.
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  • So after i became a christian, i had a bunch of friends that
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  • Were druggies.
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  • We did drugs together, made a lot of bad decisions, and i
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  • Didn't know what to do.
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  • I wasn't quite comfortable around the christians yet.
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  • A little too much praise the lord and hallelujah for my
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  • Taste, but my friends that i used to hang out with, i didn't
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  • Want to do what they did anymore, so i went a week
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  • Without talking to them.
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  • So we used to go to this one guy's house not far from my
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  • High school.
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  • We would literally get high there every day, and--but i
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  • Hadn't seen them for a week since i accepted christ, and so
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  • I was on my way over to their house just to see what they were
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  • Up to, and one of the christians ran up to me, and said, "greg,
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  • Greg, brother greg!"
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  • I'm thinking, who is this guy?
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  • I'm not his brother unless it's a brother from another mother.
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  • I don't know.
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  • He says, "bro, praise god!"
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  • I'm like, yeah, okay, fine, whatever.
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  • "bro, i have a bible for you," and he gives me a bible.
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  • It was a beat-up, thrashed bible with popsicle sticks on it in
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  • The shape of a cross.
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  • "this is your bible, bro."
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  • I'm like, okay, thank you, and he walks off, and i shoved it in
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  • My pocket.
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  • I didn't want anyone to see it.
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  • I wasn't ready to talk about my faith yet.
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  • So i went over to my friend's house where i'd often gone,
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  • And i hid my bible in the bushes in front of his house.
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  • I wasn't a very bold witness yet.
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  • And i walked in, they said, "laurie, where you been?"
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  • I said, "nowhere."
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  • "what have you been up to?"
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  • I said, "nothing."
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  • And god's holy spirit spoke to me, and said, "tell them about
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  • Jesus," and i said, "no way."
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  • So i sat down, one of them said, "greg, you wanna get high?"
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  • I said, "no."
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  • "come on, what have you been up to, laurie?"
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  • I said, "nothing."
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  • They're all thinking that something's wrong with greg,
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  • And then the guy's mother walks in holding my bible.
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  • She says, "i found this in the bushes.
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  • Who does this belong to?" like i'd committed a crime
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  • Or something.
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  • I thought, lady, you have kids doing drugs in your house, and
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  • You're worried about a bible?
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  • "who does this belong to?"
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  • Every eye in the room went to the bible, and then they went
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  • To me.
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  • They knew there was a connection.
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  • I said, "that's mine."
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  • "laurie, what is that?" "it's a bible."
  • 00:16:37.196 --> 00:16:39.598
  • "what?" "it's a bible?"
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  • "what?!!" "it's a bible!!"
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  • One of my friends said, "oh, a bible.
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  • Oh, praise the lord, brother greg.
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  • Are we gonna be christians?"
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  • "no," i said, "no, i'm gonna hit you in the mouth."
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  • I had not read 1 corinthians 13 yet, okay, so.
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  • They mocked me, they made fun of me, they gave me a hard time,
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  • And i walked out, and i said, "i don't need these so-called
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  • Friends anymore."
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  • So that's how you'll find out real fast who your friends are,
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  • Follow jesus christ.
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  • But listen, this young man did not want to give up
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  • His possessions.
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  • It wasn't about his possessions.
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  • It was about his heart.
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  • Yes, you have to give some things up to follow jesus
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  • Christ, but whatever you give up to follow him, he will more than
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  • Make up to you.
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  • Think about it.
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  • What are you gonna be giving up?
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  • You're gonna be giving up emptiness for fulfillment,
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  • Misery for joy, hell for heaven.
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  • That's a good deal.
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  • So this young man heard this message of christ, and the bible
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  • Says he went away sad.
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  • I can't do that.
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  • I'm not willing to make a change.
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  • I'm not willing to do anything differently.
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  • He went away sad.
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  • Now, let me tell you another story briefly about a man that
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  • Went to jerusalem searching for god.
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  • He worked for the queen of ethiopia.
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  • He was powerful, he was wealthy,
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  • He was like a government official, and he went there
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  • Searching for answers to his spiritual questions, and he did
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  • Not find them, because religion does not have the answers to the
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  • Questions you have.
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  • But then the bible says there was a man named philip, who was
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  • A preacher, who saw this man from ethiopia, and this man who
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  • Was visiting that city was reading out loud from isaiah 53,
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  • That actually talks about the death and sacrifice of jesus,
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  • And philip said to this ethiopian dignitary, "do you
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  • Understand what you're reading?"
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  • The man said, "how can i, unless someone shows me the way?"
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  • And philip climbed up into his chariot with him, and read him
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  • The scripture, and explained it, and that man believed in jesus
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  • At that very moment.
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  • So here's two wealthy, affluent men, two powerful men, one went
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  • Away mad, the other went away glad.
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  • So you have a choice tonight as you leave the extra mile arena.
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  • You can go away mad, you can go away sad, or you can go
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  • Away glad.
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  • It's up to you.
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  • What do you wanna do?
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  • It comes down to what you do with jesus christ.
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  • Jesus christ was the son of god who came to this earth and was
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  • Born in a manger in bethlehem.
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  • He lived a perfect life, then he died a perfect death, and died
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  • On the cross for your sin, and as spikes were driven through
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  • His hands and his feet, he took all of the sin of the world upon
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  • Himself, including yours, and then he rose again three days
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  • Later, and he's alive, and he's here with us right now.
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  • And jesus says, "behold, i stand at the door and i knock, and if
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  • You'll hear my voice and open the door, i will come in."
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  • So here's the choice before you.
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  • You can go away mad, you can go away glad, you can go away sad,
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  • It's up to you.
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  • If you say yes to jesus christ, he will come into your life and
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  • Forgive you of all of your sins.
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  • Think about that for a moment.
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  • Every wrong you've ever done, every sin you've ever committed
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  • Will be forgiven, and god doesn't just forgive sins, he
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  • Forgets sins.
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  • The bible says, god speaking, "their sins and iniquities will
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  • I remember no more."
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  • So how do you come into this relationship with god?
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  • How can you know that you'll go to heaven when you die?
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  • How can you find this joy and this happiness that you're
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  • Longing for?
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  • Here's what you need to do.
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  • Step number one, you need to realize you're a sinner.
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  • I know some people don't like to be called sinners, but the bible
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  • Says all have sin and fallen short of the glory of god.
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  • There's not one righteous, no, not one.
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  • What does it mean to sin?
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  • It means to cross a line.
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  • You've seen a sign in a park maybe that says no trespassing.
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  • To sin is to trespass.
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  • It's to cross the line.
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  • It's to break one of the commandments, like we've all
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  • Done, but sin also means to miss a mark.
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  • God has set a mark for all of humanity, which is perfection.
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  • Jesus said, "be perfect as your father in heaven is perfect."
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  • You say, "who can be perfect?"
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  • Answer, no one.
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  • That's where jesus comes in.
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  • That's why he died for your sins.
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  • So you have to admit you're a sinner.
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  • Number two, recognize christ died on the cross in your place.
  • 00:21:19.811 --> 00:21:24.516
  • Jesus said, "'i am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man
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  • Comes to the father but by me.'"
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  • Only christ was qualified to bridge the gap between a holy
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  • God and sinful humanity.
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  • Realize that he did that for you.
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  • Coming back to the rich young ruler's question, what good
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  • Things must i do to have eternal life?
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  • Answer, there are not enough good things you could do to have
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  • Eternal life.
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  • You know, you couldn't even have all those great works to get
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  • Your way in even if you tried.
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  • Besides, heaven is not for good people,
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  • Heaven is for forgiven people.
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  • You need to be forgiven of your sin.
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  • Eternal life is a gift.
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  • The bible calls it the indescribable gift.
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  • So if i were to offer you a gift here tonight, and you wanted the
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  • Gift, what do you need to do?
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  • You just reach out and take it, and i don't care how you take
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  • It, just take it.
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  • It's a gift.
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  • You don't earn it, you don't deserve it, but god offers it
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  • To you.
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  • Christ bought it for you at the cross with his own blood.
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  • It's sort of like when you give a gift to a man or a woman.
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  • When you give a gift to a woman with a card, she'll open
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  • The card.
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  • She might even be touched by what she reads.
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  • Thank you so much.
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  • She'll carefully undo the ribbon.
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  • She'll say, "i'm gonna use this somewhere else."
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  • Undo the package, open it.
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  • Thank you.
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  • That's a woman opening a gift.
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  • You give a gift to a man, he opens the card, he's not
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  • Reading it.
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  • He's just seeing if there's money in it or a gift card.
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  • He tosses it aside.
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  • The wrapping paper is just a barrier to him.
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  • I don't care if you open it like a man or a woman, just open the
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  • Gift of eternal life that god offers to each and every one of
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  • You here and you that are watching as well.
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  • It's a gift.
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  • The bible also says you need to repent of your sin.
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  • What does repent mean?
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  • It's a military term.
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  • It means to change your direction, sort of like
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  • An about-face.
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  • So you turn away from that old life.
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  • You turn away from that sin.
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  • The bible says, "repent and be converted, and times of
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  • Refreshment will come from the presence of the lord."
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: so would you like to accept jesus christ into your
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  • Life right now?
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  • Here's what you need to know.
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  • You're a sinner.
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  • I don't mean that as an insult.
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  • We're all sinners.
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  • The bible says, "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory
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  • Of god."
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  • That's why we need a savior.
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  • That's why jesus died on the cross for us.
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  • The bible says, "while we were yet sinners, christ died
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  • For us."
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  • He took all of the punishment for your sin, for my sin, upon
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  • Himself as he hung there.
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  • With one hand he took hold of god, with the other hand he
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  • Took hold of humanity, and they pounded spikes of those hands,
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  • And as the bible says, christ died for our sins.
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  • So what do i need to do?
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  • Well, i need to turn from my sin.
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  • The bible says repent and be converted.
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  • The word repent is a military term.
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  • It sort of means an about-face.
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  • So turn your back on sin, and now start walking toward god,
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  • And then you need to receive jesus christ into your life.
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  • You see, becoming a christian is not becoming a religious person.
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  • I don't wanna be a religious person.
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  • This is about a relationship where you ask jesus to be your
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  • Friend, your savior, your lord.
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  • Jesus says, "behold, i stand at the door and i knock, and if
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  • You'll hear my voice and open the door, i will come in," so
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  • You need to ask christ to come into your life, and then you
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  • Need to do it right now.
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  • The bible says, "today is the day of salvation."
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  • Right now christ can come and live inside of your heart, and
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  • I'm gonna lead you in a simple prayer.
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  • I would ask that you would pray this prayer out loud after me.
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  • If you want your sin forgiven, if you wanna know that you'll go
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  • To heaven when you die, if you wanna fill that big hole in your
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  • Heart, pray this prayer with me right now.
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  • Pray, lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner, but i know that
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  • You're the savior who died on the cross for me.
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  • I turn from my sin, and i choose to follow you from this
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  • Moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering it.
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  • In jesus's name i pray, amen.
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  • If you just prayed that prayer and meant it, i want you to know
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  • In the authority of scripture that jesus christ himself has
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  • Come to take residence in your heart.
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  • Now, on the screen there's a phone number.
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  • If you call that number, it would be our joy to send you
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  • What is called the new believer's bible.
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  • This is a very friendly translation of the bible, the
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  • New testament actually, called the new living translation, and
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  • It's filled with hundreds of notes that i wrote to encourage
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  • You in this commitment you've just made.
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  • It's sort of like you and me going out for a cup of coffee
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  • And talking about the bible.
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  • That's how it's written.
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  • You're gonna love it.
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  • I'm gonna send that to you at no charge.
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  • So order your new believer's bible.
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  • There's a website listed, and we wanna get back to you as quickly
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  • As possible with your copy of the new believer's bible.
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, there is a very special group of people i want
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  • To introduce you to.
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  • They are passionate about the gospel
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  • Of jesus christ being proclaimed in this nation and beyond.
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  • Who are these amazing people?
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  • We call them harvest partners.
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  • They are people who have chosen to give monthly to "harvest" to
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  • Keep the gospel moving forward.
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  • Will you become a harvest partner and help us fulfill the
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  • Great commission in our lifetime?
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  • Let's do this together.
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