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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Who Is Jesus? | March 25, 2025
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- Greg laurie: who is jesus? jesus is everything.
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- He's everything.
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- He can and will meet every need of your life.
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- Reviewing, jesus was and is 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: superheroes.
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- How many of you here like superhero movies?
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- Raise your hand up. right.
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- So there's a lot of superheroes out there.
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- Wolverine can heal rapidly from injury, but he is however
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- A manicurist nightmare.
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- The hulk has superhuman power.
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- You just got to get him mad and super green.
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- Aquaman can breathe under water, spider-man can climb walls,
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- Wonder woman has superhuman strength and can understand any
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- Language, and of course superman can fly.
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- Now, the problem with superheroes
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- Is they're all fictional.
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- They're not real.
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- But there was a man who walked our planet
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- Who had unlimited power.
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- He didn't need to breathe under water, he created the water.
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- He walked on the water; and yes, he could fly.
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- What else do you want to call the ascension of christ?
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- That's jesus flying without a cape.
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- Okay?
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- I am--of course, i'm talking about jesus christ the king of
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- Kings and the lord of lords.
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- Not just a good man, he literally was the god man.
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- I heard this story about a little boy that was scared one
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- Night because there was a big lightning storm.
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- So he called out to his father, "daddy, i'm scared.
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- Come into my room."
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- The father wanted to just go to sleep.
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- He said, "son, you're fine.
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- You're fine."
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- "no, daddy. come in here."
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- He says, "son, you're fine. god is with you."
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- Then there was a pause and the little boy shout back,
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- "but, dad, i need someone right now with skin on."
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- That's who jesus was.
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- He was god with skin on.
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- God had a face.
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- God spelled himself out in a language
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- We could all understand.
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- And jesus christ, the most significant figure in all of
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- Human history--now, we rate a person's influence today by
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- Maybe how many followers they have on social media.
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- And if someone's being honored at a certain event, we might
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- Call them the man or the woman of the year.
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- Every year time magazine picks the person of the year and every
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- 10 years they choose the person of the decade.
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- And then we have certain eras that are defined
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- By their leaders.
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- In england you have the elizabethan age, you have the
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- Victorian age.
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- But only one person literally divides history in half, and
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- That was jesus christ.
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- It's bc, and it's ad.
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- Before christ; ad, anno domini, the year of our lord.
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- He's the most powerful name in all of the universe.
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- It's a name that is above all names.
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- If you don't believe me, just say it in a crowded room and see
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- What happens.
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- People will stop, look at you.
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- "wait, did they just say jesus christ?"
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- It's a name that is above every other name.
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- So here's the thing we want to talk about.
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- Who was jesus, and why did he come into our world?
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- So let's look at john chapter 1.
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- And john is describing the mission of christ, and he says,
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- "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god, and
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- The word was god.
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- He was in the beginning with god.
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- All things were made through him.
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- Without him nothing was made that was made.
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- In him was life, and the life was the light of men.
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- And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did
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- Not comprehend it."
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- Then later on there in john he says,
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- "and the word became flesh, and he dwelt among us."
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- So here's number one point, if you're taking notes.
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- Jesus was and is god.
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- Before there was a world, before there were planets, before there
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- Was light or darkness, before there was matter, before there
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- Was anything other than the godhead there was jesus
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- Co-equal, co-eternal, co-existent with god.
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- He was god.
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- So jesus did not stay in the safety of heaven.
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- He entered our world.
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- He was born in a manger.
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- He was deity in diapers.
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- It's so amazing that he would become like one of us,
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- And then he walked in our shoes and then some.
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- He squeezed his infinite presence into a container the
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- Size of an average man.
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- He could not have identified with us more closely than he
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- Did, but it was total identification with us without
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- Any loss of identity.
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- He became one of us without ceasing to be himself.
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- He became human without ceasing to be god.
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- I know this is hard for us to wrap our minds to--around,
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- Rather, because we just think he's a good man.
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- He was a godly man.
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- He was the god man, fully god
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- Yet at the same time fully human.
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- And in fact verse 1 says the word was with god, and that
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- Could be translated the word was continually toward god.
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- It implies jesus and the father face to face.
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- There's a sense of intimacy implied in the trinity: the
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- Father, son, and holy spirit.
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- In fact, in john 17 jesus in his prayer said to the father, "now,
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- Oh father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which i
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- Had with you before the world began."
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- Point number two, jesus as a member of the trinity was there
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- Hands-on at the creation of everything.
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- Jesus, remember the trinity, was at the creation
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- Of everything and in fact, he is the creator.
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- Colossians 1:16, "by him all things were created of things in
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- Heaven and earth, visible and invisible, thrones or powers.
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- All things were created by him and for him."
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- You say, "now wait.
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- I'm confused because doesn't the bible say in the beginning god
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- Created the heavens and the earth?"
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- Yes.
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- "doesn't the bible not say and the spirit of god brooded
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- Over the waters?"
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- Yes.
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- "and now we read that jesus is the creator.
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- I don't understand."
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- The trinity was at work in the creation of all things.
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- Point number three, jesus who was god became a man.
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- It's incredible to think that he became a little baby.
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- Have you ever held a newborn baby in your arms?
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- They're so delicate.
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- They're so vulnerable.
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- You have to cradle their little heads and their bodies, and you
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- Have to be so gentle with them.
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- And to think that of all the ways god could have come to us
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- He came as a helpless baby, an infant yet infinite, dependent
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- On a young woman to care for him.
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- I mean, it seems to me god--jesus could have just come
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- Down in a shaft of light.
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- "hey, everyone. here i am.
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- Let's go," you know.
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- But he enters our world as a helpless little baby born in a
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- Manger of bethlehem.
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- But it was not only an arrival, it was a departure because
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- Isaiah 9:6 gives us both the earthly and the heavenly
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- Perspective when it says, "unto us a child is born."
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- And we celebrate that at christmas.
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- We call it the incarnation.
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- "unto us a son is given."
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- That's heaven's perspective.
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- We celebrate his birth and arrival.
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- Heaven celebrates his departure.
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- He left heaven to come to walk among us.
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- G.k. chesterton wrote, and i quote,
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- "the hands that made the sun and the stars
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- Were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle
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- That surrounded him, too small to change his own clothing
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- Or to put food in his own mouth.
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- Amazing god, an infant.
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- Helplessness."
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- End quote. wow.
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- So here is jesus, who was god, in his mother's womb.
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- In the incarnation or the birth of jesus he did not lay aside
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- His deity, bringing me to point number four.
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- Jesus veiled his deity.
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- He did not void it.
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- He veiled it. he did not void it.
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- Philippians 2, i had you turn there, it says, "jesus who was
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- In the form of god did not consider it robbery to be equal
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- With god but made himself of no reputation; taking the form of a
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- Bondservant and coming in the likeness of men and became
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- Obedient to death, even the death of the cross."
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- This phrase where he talks about jesus coming in the likeness of
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- Men is a greek word kenosis.
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- It speaks of emptying oneself.
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- Now, did jesus empty himself of his divinity?
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- No. he always was god.
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- In fact, when he walked among us, he displayed the divine
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- Attributes that we talked about earlier when we looked
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- At god the father.
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- Jesus was omniscient.
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- He knew all things.
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- Jesus was omnipresent.
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- He said, "lo, i'm with you to the end of the age."
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- He was omnipotent.
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- He said, "all power is given to me unto heaven and earth."
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- So it's an incredible thing, you know, to imagine god walking
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- Among you, you know, to actually look at a person in flesh and
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- Blood and say, "that is god."
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- Greg: hey everybody, greg laurie with some thoughts
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- About how people see us as christians.
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- Christians should be known for their love, for their patience,
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- For their kindness.
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- They should not be known as people who are mean or
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- Short-tempered or judgmental.
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- You know, it was said of the apostles in the book of acts the
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- Leaders could tell, and these are secular leaders,
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- That they had been with jesus, speaking of peter and john.
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- They could see they had been with jesus.
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- I love that.
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- Do you think someone can tell you've been with jesus?
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- You say, "what does that even mean?"
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- Well, you're with jesus when you open his word.
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- He says, "lo in the volume of the book i come."
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- You spend time with jesus when you pray.
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- And so people can see it reflected.
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- Or another way to put it, when you leave church.
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- I think after church when a christian family or a christian
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- Goes into a restaurant the server should be able to tell
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- The difference between the believer and the non-believer.
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- They could say, "oh, these are christians.
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- Look at how polite they are, how patient they are, how friendly
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- They are, how generous they are with their tips.
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- These are christians.
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- They must have come from church.
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- Oh, these other people clearly are not."
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- People should be able to tell you've been with jesus by the
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- Way that you live, and that earned you the right to
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- Verbalize it and articulate your faith.
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- As i've said so many times, if you were arrested for being
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- A christian would there be enough evidence to convict you?
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- By evidence i don't mean by how big of a bible you have
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- Or how many bumper stickers you have in your car that talk
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- About your faith.
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- By the way, 2 is good, 3 is kind of pushing it, but if you have
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- Like 15 stickers on your car that's too much.
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- Just like tone it down a bit. okay?
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- People are not going to know you're a christian
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- By your bumper stickers.
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- They're going to know you're a christian by your love.
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- So let's make sure we have genuine evidence that shows
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- We're a christian before we even start talking about jesus.
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- Greg: you wonder sometimes that the disciples just stand
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- There and stare at him.
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- Be asleep. he'd wake up.
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- "whoa, what are you guys doing?"
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- "we're just looking at you.
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- You're god walking among us."
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- 1 john 1:1 john writes, "that which was from the beginning
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- Which we heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which our
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- Hands have handled."
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- That phrase see with our eyes means to gaze upon as a
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- Spectacle, and yet we wonder what did jesus
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- Actually look like.
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- I find it interesting that in all four gospels not one person
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- Took the time to give us a one-verse description of jesus.
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- Now, we have our image of christ that's reinforced by religious
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- Art and movies and such, but nobody really knows what jesus
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- Looked like.
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- But i would suggest to you that he was a rather
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- Ordinary-looking person.
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- When mary was in the garden looking for his body to anoint,
- 00:13:05.461 --> 00:13:09.031
- Jesus speaks to her and she just thought he was the gardener.
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- When he joined the two disciples on the emmaus road, they didn't
- 00:13:13.335 --> 00:13:16.105
- Know it was jesus.
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- On one occasion they wanted to push jesus off a cliff and he
- 00:13:18.941 --> 00:13:22.745
- Effectively said, "not today, boys.
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- My time has not yet come."
- 00:13:25.548 --> 00:13:26.882
- And he walked through the midst of them and disappeared
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- Into the crowd.
- 00:13:29.952 --> 00:13:31.554
- Now, how's that possible?
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- We all know who jesus is.
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- When you see a bunch of people wearing robes,
- 00:13:34.824 --> 00:13:36.592
- Jesus has the blue sash.
- 00:13:36.592 --> 00:13:39.662
- Only jesus gets the blue sash.
- 00:13:39.662 --> 00:13:42.665
- It's like the blue check mark on instagram and twitter,
- 00:13:42.665 --> 00:13:46.135
- And he didn't even have to pay for it.
- 00:13:46.135 --> 00:13:47.937
- "oh, there's jesus. he's got the blue sash.
- 00:13:47.937 --> 00:13:50.973
- We can't wear that one."
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- Bible never says anything about that or how easy it would
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- Be to spot him.
- 00:13:55.878 --> 00:13:57.246
- He's the guy with the halo over his head.
- 00:13:57.246 --> 00:14:00.049
- Remember judas iscariot had to identify christ so they could
- 00:14:00.049 --> 00:14:03.886
- Arrest him.
- 00:14:03.886 --> 00:14:05.221
- He said, "he's the guy i will kiss."
- 00:14:05.221 --> 00:14:07.122
- Because jesus did not glow in the dark.
- 00:14:07.122 --> 00:14:10.459
- He was an ordinary-looking man that walked among us.
- 00:14:10.459 --> 00:14:14.864
- But how could someone be both god and man simultaneously?
- 00:14:14.864 --> 00:14:20.002
- How's that possible? here's a great illustration.
- 00:14:20.002 --> 00:14:22.972
- One time the disciples got in the boat and were crossing over
- 00:14:22.972 --> 00:14:26.075
- The sea of galilee and a huge storm came, and it was so bad
- 00:14:26.075 --> 00:14:29.011
- They thought they were going to drown and jesus was asleep in
- 00:14:29.011 --> 00:14:33.415
- The lower part of the boat and they woke him up.
- 00:14:33.415 --> 00:14:35.251
- They said, "lord, don't you care that we're going to die?"
- 00:14:35.251 --> 00:14:38.220
- And jesus came up on the deck of the boat, looked around, said,
- 00:14:38.220 --> 00:14:41.557
- "peace. be still."
- 00:14:41.557 --> 00:14:42.892
- And the storm stopped.
- 00:14:42.892 --> 00:14:45.461
- And then he went back down and slept some more.
- 00:14:45.461 --> 00:14:47.897
- What could be more human than being exhausted enough to fall
- 00:14:47.897 --> 00:14:51.233
- Asleep and stay asleep in the midst of a storm?
- 00:14:51.233 --> 00:14:55.170
- And what could be more divine than rebuking the elements as
- 00:14:55.170 --> 00:14:59.341
- Jesus did on that occasion?
- 00:14:59.341 --> 00:15:02.411
- Even the disciples said, "what sort of man is this that even
- 00:15:02.411 --> 00:15:05.848
- The winds and the sea obey him?"
- 00:15:05.848 --> 00:15:08.517
- Answer, he was the god man.
- 00:15:08.517 --> 00:15:11.220
- But yet at the same time jesus experienced the limitations of
- 00:15:11.220 --> 00:15:15.524
- Humanity without the sinful nature.
- 00:15:15.524 --> 00:15:18.827
- For instance, he grew tired like you grow tired.
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- He would be tired after a day of work, and he was weary when he
- 00:15:23.265 --> 00:15:28.304
- Sat down there at the well waiting for that woman to show
- 00:15:28.304 --> 00:15:30.906
- Up in john 4.
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- He experienced physical thirst.
- 00:15:32.875 --> 00:15:35.678
- Remember when he hung on the cross he said, "i thirst."
- 00:15:35.678 --> 00:15:39.415
- He knew physical hunger.
- 00:15:39.415 --> 00:15:41.317
- When he was there in the wilderness the devil tempted him
- 00:15:41.317 --> 00:15:44.420
- To turn a rock into a piece of bread.
- 00:15:44.420 --> 00:15:46.855
- He experienced physical weakness because as he carried that very
- 00:15:46.855 --> 00:15:52.127
- Heavy cross the streets--through the streets of jerusalem after
- 00:15:52.127 --> 00:15:56.098
- Being scourged and whipped he collapsed beneath its weight and
- 00:15:56.098 --> 00:16:00.636
- Some men named simon from cyrene had the privilege of momentarily
- 00:16:00.636 --> 00:16:06.742
- Relieving jesus of this burden and carrying the cross for him
- 00:16:06.742 --> 00:16:11.714
- For a bit of time.
- 00:16:11.714 --> 00:16:13.048
- But jesus was tired like you're tired.
- 00:16:13.048 --> 00:16:15.517
- Jesus knew anger; but it was righteous indignation, not the
- 00:16:15.517 --> 00:16:19.788
- Kind of anger we experience like when someone cuts us off or
- 00:16:19.788 --> 00:16:22.992
- Something and we lay on the horn.
- 00:16:22.992 --> 00:16:25.327
- No.
- 00:16:25.327 --> 00:16:26.662
- Jesus had righteous indignation reserved primarily for the
- 00:16:26.662 --> 00:16:29.531
- Religious hypocrites of the day.
- 00:16:29.531 --> 00:16:32.501
- He was not angry with sinners per se, but he overturned the
- 00:16:32.501 --> 00:16:36.672
- Tables and the temple with a whip.
- 00:16:36.672 --> 00:16:39.575
- So that was righteous indignation.
- 00:16:39.575 --> 00:16:41.777
- So now we come to another big question.
- 00:16:41.777 --> 00:16:44.413
- Why did jesus come to this earth?
- 00:16:44.413 --> 00:16:49.718
- Very simple answer.
- 00:16:47.516 --> 00:16:51.587
- Jesus came to die on the cross for our sins.
- 00:16:51.587 --> 00:16:56.558
- I remember before i was a christian i was always
- 00:16:56.558 --> 00:17:00.329
- Enthralled by the story of jesus.
- 00:17:00.329 --> 00:17:03.432
- I'd seen all these movies about him and i always felt like
- 00:17:03.432 --> 00:17:06.268
- Someone should rewrite the story.
- 00:17:06.268 --> 00:17:08.937
- I thought, "i don't like the way the story ends.
- 00:17:08.937 --> 00:17:11.540
- They should not have him get crucified.
- 00:17:11.540 --> 00:17:14.143
- You know, this is a horrible idea."
- 00:17:14.143 --> 00:17:16.612
- But it wasn't until i became a christian and began to read the
- 00:17:16.612 --> 00:17:18.881
- Bible that i realized that's why he came.
- 00:17:18.881 --> 00:17:22.351
- He was born to die that we might live.
- 00:17:22.351 --> 00:17:24.686
- In fact, in revelation it says he's the lamb slain from the
- 00:17:24.686 --> 00:17:28.057
- Foundation of the world, which means before there was a solar
- 00:17:28.057 --> 00:17:32.528
- System, before there was a planet called earth, before
- 00:17:32.528 --> 00:17:36.131
- There was a couple named adam and eve, before there was a
- 00:17:36.131 --> 00:17:39.068
- Garden called eden a decision was made that god would send his
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- Son to earth on a rescue mission because god knew that mankind
- 00:17:42.638 --> 00:17:47.810
- Would blow it in the garden and eat the forbidden fruit.
- 00:17:47.810 --> 00:17:51.780
- Slain from the foundation of the world for all of our sins.
- 00:17:51.780 --> 00:17:57.286
- He came to do this for us.
- 00:17:57.286 --> 00:17:59.588
- Romans 5:8 says, "while we were yet sinners,
- 00:17:59.588 --> 00:18:02.691
- Christ died for us."
- 00:18:02.691 --> 00:18:04.293
- And in some mysterious way that i don't think we can ever fully
- 00:18:04.293 --> 00:18:06.929
- Understand there was a moment when christ hung on the cross
- 00:18:06.929 --> 00:18:10.666
- When all of the sin of the world was poured upon him.
- 00:18:10.666 --> 00:18:15.270
- Remember jesus in the garden of gethsemane?
- 00:18:15.270 --> 00:18:18.807
- We read king james he sweat as it were great drops of blood.
- 00:18:18.807 --> 00:18:23.245
- Keep in mind the author of that gospel was luke who
- 00:18:23.245 --> 00:18:25.514
- Was a physician.
- 00:18:25.514 --> 00:18:26.849
- He was sort of using medical verbiage.
- 00:18:26.849 --> 00:18:29.518
- He sweat as it were great drops of blood.
- 00:18:29.518 --> 00:18:32.187
- Some medical experts today think that may have been something
- 00:18:32.187 --> 00:18:35.057
- They call hematidrosis, which when a person is under intense
- 00:18:35.057 --> 00:18:39.862
- Pressure they can actually perspire and have blood
- 00:18:39.862 --> 00:18:43.832
- Intermingled with their sweat.
- 00:18:43.832 --> 00:18:47.236
- And imagine the pressure christ was under.
- 00:18:47.236 --> 00:18:50.038
- And there in the garden-- he's omniscient, remember?
- 00:18:50.038 --> 00:18:52.307
- He knows all things. he knows what's coming.
- 00:18:52.307 --> 00:18:54.843
- He knows they're going to beat him.
- 00:18:54.843 --> 00:18:56.445
- He knows they're going to pull the beard out of his face.
- 00:18:56.445 --> 00:18:59.148
- He knows they're going to press a crown of thorns on his head.
- 00:18:59.148 --> 00:19:02.117
- He knows they're going to whip him.
- 00:19:02.117 --> 00:19:03.752
- But worst of all, he who had known no sin was going to bear
- 00:19:03.752 --> 00:19:07.556
- All the sin of the world and he recoiled from it and he said,
- 00:19:07.556 --> 00:19:12.294
- "father, if it's possible, let this cup pass from me."
- 00:19:12.294 --> 00:19:17.633
- But then he said, "nevertheless, not my will but yours be done."
- 00:19:17.633 --> 00:19:21.570
- And this is what christ was dreading.
- 00:19:21.570 --> 00:19:23.839
- More than all of the pain and suffering what he dreaded was
- 00:19:23.839 --> 00:19:27.843
- Taking the sin of the world upon himself, but it happened in a
- 00:19:27.843 --> 00:19:31.280
- Moment in time and it's probably when christ gave one of seven
- 00:19:31.280 --> 00:19:34.783
- Statements from the cross when he said, "eli eli lama
- 00:19:34.783 --> 00:19:38.287
- Sabachthani," which means, "my god, my god, why have you
- 00:19:38.287 --> 00:19:41.156
- Forsaken me?"
- 00:19:41.156 --> 00:19:42.791
- The holy father turned his face away as he poured his judgment
- 00:19:42.791 --> 00:19:49.231
- On jesus, who was dying in our place in some mysterious way
- 00:19:49.231 --> 00:19:55.537
- Which we can never fully comprehend.
- 00:19:55.537 --> 00:19:57.973
- During those awful hours on the cross god the father was pouring
- 00:19:57.973 --> 00:20:01.510
- Out the full measure of his wrath against sin and the
- 00:20:01.510 --> 00:20:05.214
- Recipient of that wrath was god's own beloved son.
- 00:20:05.214 --> 00:20:09.184
- Listen, god was punishing jesus as if he had personally
- 00:20:09.184 --> 00:20:12.821
- Committed every wicked deed committed by every wicked sinner
- 00:20:12.821 --> 00:20:16.592
- And in doing so he could forgive and treat those redeemed ones as
- 00:20:16.592 --> 00:20:20.529
- If they had lived christ's perfect life of righteousness.
- 00:20:20.529 --> 00:20:25.934
- Incredible moment for us.
- 00:20:25.934 --> 00:20:28.337
- And this is something we need to remember.
- 00:20:28.337 --> 00:20:30.505
- He paid it all.
- 00:20:30.505 --> 00:20:32.574
- Now, sometimes when we sin--how many of you ever sin?
- 00:20:32.574 --> 00:20:35.477
- Raise your hand. okay, good.
- 00:20:35.477 --> 00:20:37.546
- Not good, but at least you're honest.
- 00:20:37.546 --> 00:20:40.415
- Bad. you're bad.
- 00:20:40.415 --> 00:20:42.985
- But when we sin, and we all do, sometimes we like to beat
- 00:20:42.985 --> 00:20:47.289
- Ourselves up afterwards, almost our personal form of atonement.
- 00:20:47.289 --> 00:20:51.693
- "okay, well, i did this thing, or i thought this thought,
- 00:20:51.693 --> 00:20:54.630
- And i shouldn't have said that other thing,
- 00:20:54.630 --> 00:20:57.199
- And now i'm going to beat myself up
- 00:20:57.199 --> 00:20:58.934
- And sort of pay for it."
- 00:20:58.934 --> 00:21:00.535
- No, jesus was already beaten up for your sin.
- 00:21:00.535 --> 00:21:03.405
- You don't have to beat yourself up.
- 00:21:03.405 --> 00:21:05.507
- He forgave you.
- 00:21:05.507 --> 00:21:07.476
- Accept that forgiveness that he extends to you.
- 00:21:07.476 --> 00:21:10.312
- "well, i'm not deserving."
- 00:21:10.312 --> 00:21:11.647
- You never were, never will be, but it's a gift to you.
- 00:21:11.647 --> 00:21:17.419
- Why did jesus die on the cross?
- 00:21:17.419 --> 00:21:20.222
- He died on the cross to absorb god's wrath, to take the
- 00:21:20.222 --> 00:21:23.625
- Judgment that should have come upon you and me.
- 00:21:23.625 --> 00:21:27.029
- He also died on the cross to show his love for us.
- 00:21:27.029 --> 00:21:32.367
- The apostle paul writes christ loved the church and gave
- 00:21:32.367 --> 00:21:36.772
- Himself up for her.
- 00:21:36.772 --> 00:21:39.207
- Jesus himself said in john 3:16, "for god so loved the world he
- 00:21:39.207 --> 00:21:43.278
- Gave his only begotten son."
- 00:21:43.278 --> 00:21:45.747
- And paul personalized it and said, "he loved me
- 00:21:45.747 --> 00:21:49.051
- And he gave himself for me."
- 00:21:49.051 --> 00:21:51.453
- So if you're ever tempted to doubt that god loves you, take a
- 00:21:51.453 --> 00:21:55.257
- Long look at the cross and look at jesus hanging there
- 00:21:55.257 --> 00:21:59.027
- And look at the sacrifice he made.
- 00:21:59.027 --> 00:22:01.163
- He did that because he loves you.
- 00:22:01.163 --> 00:22:03.565
- As i've often said, nails did not hold him to that cross,
- 00:22:03.565 --> 00:22:07.636
- Love did for you.
- 00:22:07.636 --> 00:22:09.604
- He loves you.
- 00:22:09.604 --> 00:22:10.939
- That's why he came to die on the cross.
- 00:22:10.939 --> 00:22:12.607
- And he suffered and died to provide our forgiveness
- 00:22:12.607 --> 00:22:15.911
- And justification.
- 00:22:15.911 --> 00:22:18.380
- Now, when you come to jesus and believe in him,
- 00:22:18.380 --> 00:22:20.982
- He forgives you of all of your sin.
- 00:22:20.982 --> 00:22:23.885
- The bible says, "as far as the east is from the west," god
- 00:22:23.885 --> 00:22:26.988
- Speaking, "is as far as i will put your sin from you."
- 00:22:26.988 --> 00:22:31.993
- But god not only forgives sin, he forgets sin.
- 00:22:31.993 --> 00:22:36.198
- But then the bible teaches he justifies us.
- 00:22:36.198 --> 00:22:39.067
- Romans 5:9, we're justified by his blood.
- 00:22:39.067 --> 00:22:42.170
- What does that mean?
- 00:22:42.170 --> 00:22:43.739
- To be justified means not only are you forgiven, it also is a
- 00:22:43.739 --> 00:22:47.609
- Legal term that could be translated just as if it never
- 00:22:47.609 --> 00:22:51.947
- Had happened.
- 00:22:51.947 --> 00:22:54.616
- So he expunges the record, you see, of your sin.
- 00:22:54.616 --> 00:22:59.788
- Forgiven, forgotten, removed from the record; jesus did all
- 00:22:59.788 --> 00:23:05.694
- Of that for you.
- 00:23:05.694 --> 00:23:07.496
- One last thing, jesus christ who was god, jesus christ who became
- 00:23:07.496 --> 00:23:13.468
- A man, jesus christ who veiled but never voided his deity,
- 00:23:13.468 --> 00:23:18.740
- Jesus christ will come again.
- 00:23:18.740 --> 00:23:22.911
- He's going to come again.
- 00:23:22.911 --> 00:23:29.618
- After jesus died and rose again from the dead, the disciples
- 00:23:29.618 --> 00:23:34.556
- Watched him as he ascended into heaven or flew, if you will.
- 00:23:34.556 --> 00:23:38.493
- And the angels said, "men of galilee, why do you stand gazing
- 00:23:38.493 --> 00:23:41.163
- Up into heaven?
- 00:23:41.163 --> 00:23:42.764
- This same jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will so
- 00:23:42.764 --> 00:23:47.202
- Come in like manner as you saw him go to heaven."
- 00:23:47.202 --> 00:23:52.174
- Jesus is coming again.
- 00:23:52.174 --> 00:23:54.242
- The incarnation without the coronation would be like the
- 00:23:54.242 --> 00:23:57.913
- East without the west, and the bible speaks so many times of
- 00:23:57.913 --> 00:24:03.151
- The second coming or the return of christ.
- 00:24:03.151 --> 00:24:07.255
- It's mentioned 1,800 times in the old testament and 300 times
- 00:24:07.255 --> 00:24:11.827
- In the new testament.
- 00:24:11.827 --> 00:24:13.862
- Statistically, 1 out of every 25 verses in the bible mentions the
- 00:24:13.862 --> 00:24:17.866
- Return of the lord.
- 00:24:17.866 --> 00:24:20.168
- For every prophecy on the first coming of christ there are eight
- 00:24:20.168 --> 00:24:24.206
- Prophecies on the second coming of christ.
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- So clearly this is a biblical message that's reinforced again
- 00:24:28.143 --> 00:24:31.746
- And again.
- 00:24:31.746 --> 00:24:33.081
- Jesus says in revelation 3, "i am coming soon.
- 00:24:33.081 --> 00:24:36.885
- Hold on to what you have."
- 00:24:36.885 --> 00:24:39.187
- Jesus also said in john 14, "if i go i will come again and
- 00:24:39.187 --> 00:24:44.893
- Receive you to myself, that where i am you may be also."
- 00:24:44.893 --> 00:24:49.664
- C.h. spurgeon, great bible teacher,
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- Said, and i quote, "the sound of his approach
- 00:24:52.501 --> 00:24:56.338
- Should be as music to our ears."
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- End quote.
- 00:24:59.474 --> 00:25:00.809
- So this is an interesting thing because your reaction to the
- 00:25:00.809 --> 00:25:04.212
- Imminent return of jesus is a bit of a spiritual barometer
- 00:25:04.212 --> 00:25:09.117
- Into where you're at right now with god.
- 00:25:09.117 --> 00:25:11.920
- If your heart jumps a little, if you get a little excited when
- 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.090
- You hear christ could come back, that's a good sign.
- 00:25:15.090 --> 00:25:18.026
- If you are a little concerned and a little afraid, that's
- 00:25:18.026 --> 00:25:21.696
- Pretty much a bad sign.
- 00:25:21.696 --> 00:25:25.033
- In revelation 22:20 jesus says, "i'm coming quickly."
- 00:25:25.033 --> 00:25:29.671
- And john responds, "amen. come, lord jesus."
- 00:25:29.671 --> 00:25:33.909
- That should be the reaction of the believer.
- 00:25:33.909 --> 00:25:35.844
- When jesus says, "i'm coming again,"
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- We like john should say, "amen. come, lord jesus."
- 00:25:37.913 --> 00:25:42.384
- So in conclusion, who is jesus?
- 00:25:42.384 --> 00:25:44.920
- Jesus is everything.
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- He's everything.
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- He can and will meet every need of your life.
- 00:25:48.857 --> 00:25:52.160
- Reviewing, jesus was and is god.
- 00:25:52.160 --> 00:25:56.164
- Greg: hi, i'm greg laurie. i've got some good news for you.
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- God loves you, and god has a plan for your life.
- 00:26:02.938 --> 00:26:06.808
- Here's the problem.
- 00:26:06.808 --> 00:26:08.143
- We're separated from god by our sin because we've all broken
- 00:26:08.143 --> 00:26:11.980
- His commandments.
- 00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:13.548
- But the good news is, is 2,000 years ago god sent his son
- 00:26:13.548 --> 00:26:17.519
- Jesus christ to die on the cross for your sin and then
- 00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:21.056
- To rise again from the dead.
- 00:26:21.056 --> 00:26:23.358
- The same jesus who died and rose is alive and ready to come
- 00:26:23.358 --> 00:26:26.995
- Into your life right now.
- 00:26:26.995 --> 00:26:29.230
- Would you like your sin forgiven?
- 00:26:29.230 --> 00:26:31.232
- Would you like to know that when you die you will go to heaven?
- 00:26:31.232 --> 00:26:34.235
- If so, pray this simple prayer with me right now.
- 00:26:34.235 --> 00:26:37.606
- 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
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- From this moment forward."
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- Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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