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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - Your Password To Unlocking Revelation | April 2, 2025
- ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪
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- ♪ this is the day, the day when life begins. ♪
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- Greg laurie: we're starting a brand-new series in the book
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- Of revelation.
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- The title of my message is "your password to unlocking the book
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- Of revelation."
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- Speaking of passwords, do you ever forget your password?
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- I'm forgetting my passwords all the time, and i have to reset
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- Them, and reset them, and i was on an ipad recently and i got
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- The wrong code and i was locked out for a period of time.
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- Have you ever been locked out of anything?
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- You know, i read that the most commonly used passwords are, get
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- Ready for this imaginative choice, "123456."
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- Hey, if you want someone to hack your stuff, definitely use
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- "123456" as your password.
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- Another popular password that's hacked in less than a second
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- Is "11111."
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- And then finally, people will put in the word "password" as
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- Their password.
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- Also, the names of people's pets are popular as well.
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- Did you hear about this guy who can't get into his
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- Bitcoin account?
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- Apparently he has 220 million in bitcoin, but he can't remember
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- His password.
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- His name is stephan thomas, he was given 7,002 bitcoins for
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- Some work that he did some time ago, and at the time, the value
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- Was a few dollars each, so he wrote the password down on a
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- Piece of paper, not thinking it was all that important, but now
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- That bitcoin is worth $220 million.
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- He had ten opportunities to use a password and he's used up
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- Eight of them and he only has two left.
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- Wow, that's a lot of money to be sitting in an account that he
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- May lose access to.
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- Listen to this, i know the password to unlocking the book
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- Of revelation, or we might call it the "golden key" or the
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- "encryption key."
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- And actually, it's hanging on the front door of the first
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- Chapter, and we're gonna make sense of this book and try to
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- Get a handle on all of these things we hear about,
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- Like armageddon.
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- What is that?
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- The rapture, the second coming, same event, or are they
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- Two events?
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- The millennium, what does that even mean?
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- The 144,000, who are they?
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- The antichrist, the mark of the beast, all these things we hear
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- About, they're all found here in the book of revelation, and
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- We're going to find that golden key together, that encryption
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- Key, and i'll share with you in just few moments.
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- And i think we're all very aware of the fact that our world is in
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- Turmoil right now.
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- There's a sense of fear in the air.
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- This is due, in part, to this global pandemic that was
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- Supposed to have come and gone, but it just seems to go on and
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- On with new strains of the virus with no real end in sight at
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- The moment.
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- It's caused a global economic shutdown.
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- It's affected people all around the world.
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- Meanwhile, back at home, we see our cities in turmoil.
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- We see the murder rate up dramatically.
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- We see all the things that are going on and it causes us to
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- Wonder, "are these signs of the times?
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- Are these the things the bible told us to be looking for,
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- Letting us know that christ is coming back?"
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- The answer is, "yes, they are."
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- And as we see these signs happening, we understand that
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- They're almost like dominoes, you know?
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- If you take a lot of dominoes and stack them closely together,
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- When the first domino goes, all the others follow in
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- Rapid succession.
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- That's what the last day's events are like, the first
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- Domino falls and the others come after.
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- Let me give you a big picture of how i see the end-times events.
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- I believe the next event on the prophetic calendar will be the
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- Rapture of the church.
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- The rapture of the church is that event when christ comes for
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- His church and we're caught up to meet him in a moment, in the
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- Twinkling of an eye.
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- That could happen at any time.
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- Following that will probably be the invasion of magog
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- Against israel.
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- It could be right after that or a little bit after that, but it
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- Seems like it will be in close proximity to that event called
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- "the rapture."
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- Also after the rapture, that coming world leader emerges on
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- The scene called "the antichrist," also known as
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- "the beast."
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- He effectively inaugurates a seven-year period called "the
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- Great tribulation" period.
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- When antichrist first comes on the scene, he seems like
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- A good guy.
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- He seems like a man of peace, a man with economic solutions,
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- A man who fixes things.
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- But at the halfway point of the seven-year tribulation,
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- Antichrist shows his true colors and commits what is called by
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- Jesus in matthew 24, "the abomination of desolation."
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- He has the jewish temple rebuilt and he erects an image of
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- Himself in it and commands people to worship him.
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- Now, there's a series of cataclysmic judgments that fall
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- On the earth for the remainder of the tribulation period, and
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- Everything culminates in a massive series of battles
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- Called "armageddon."
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- Armageddon is from the root word, "megiddo", "har megiddo".
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- So it's basically talking about where the final wars of mankind
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- Will be fought and they'll be fought in israel.
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- Then christ comes back in the second coming, it's a separate
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- Event from the rapture.
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- In the rapture, he comes for his church, and the second coming,
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- He returns with his church.
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- After this, we have what is called the "millennium."
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- The millennium means "a thousand."
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- The word "millennium" means "a thousand," and it's the
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- 1000-year reign of christ.
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- And then, heaven and earth become one as the new jerusalem
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- Comes down from heaven as a bride adorned for her husband.
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- Amazing things are going to happen, but the first domino has
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- Not yet fallen.
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- The rapture has not yet taken place, but we know these things
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- Because we believe in the book.
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- Listen to this, christians know things that non-christians do
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- Not know.
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- We know that god is good and man is bad.
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- Now, people often have that reversed.
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- They think man is good and god is bad, and this is often
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- Expressed in a question along the lines of, "how could a god
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- Of love allow this and that?"
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- Where, in effect, i'm putting myself in the position to
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- Judge god.
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- I'm challenging the fact that god is loving because i don't
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- Agree with it.
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- Listen, who are you?
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- When did you become the moral center of the universe?
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- Here's the bottom line, man is not good.
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- Man is bad, bad to the bone.
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- He's utterly sinful.
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- All of us are, but god is good.
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- But because we know man is bad and god is good, we know that
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- Man is not gonna solve these problems, but we know ultimately
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- God will resolve these things, and we know god is in control.
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- Yes, folks, i do believe we're in the last days.
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- I do believe we're in the end-times and it's important
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- That we understand what's happening around us.
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- In romans chapter 13, the apostle paul writes,
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- "understanding the present time, the hour has come for us to wake
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- Up from our slumber because our salvation is nearer than when we
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- First believed.
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- The night is nearly over."
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- Yes, we need to understand the times we're living in, and
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- There's no better book to explain all of that to us than
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- The book of revelation, the last book of the new testament.
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- The word "revelation" means "the unveiling" because it is god's
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- Desire to unveil, or to reveal.
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- God does not want to conceal these things from you.
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- He wants to reveal these things to us, and bible prophecy is not
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- Given to scare us, it's given to prepare us.
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- So what does it reveal?
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- Well, when we come to the book of revelation, it's like the
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- Veil is taken away, and i see the spirit world, the spirit
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- World of angels and demons and god and satan.
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- The world of heaven and of hell and the world that shows us what
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- Is coming, as well.
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- Yes, i will learn about the antichrist and his henchmen in
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- The book of revelation, but the primary focus of revelation is
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- Not antichrist, it's jesus christ.
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- Don't waste your time trying to figure out who antichrist is,
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- Give your attention to who jesus christ is because he is
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- The very center of the book of revelation, and he's the very
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- Center of bible prophecy, in general.
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- Revelation 19:10 says, "the essence of prophecy is to give a
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- Clear witness for jesus."
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- Jesus is the centerpiece and the star and focus of the book
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- Of revelation.
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- And should he not be the centerpiece and star of your
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- Life, and my life, as well?
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- You know, sometimes we can get so caught up in the study of
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- Eschatology, which is a word that refers to last day's
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- Events, and so forth, that we can't see the forest for
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- The trees.
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- Listen to this, bible prophecy is not given to inflate our
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- Brains, it's given to enlarge our hearts.
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- Understand, the book revelation was written to believers who
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- Were suffering.
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- In fact, it was written by a believer who was suffering,
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- Banished to the island of patmos.
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- I'm talking about the apostle john.
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- Church tradition tells us that they tried to boil him in a pot
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- Of oil and they were unsuccessful, so he was banished
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- To this island where the lord gave him this unveiling, this
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- Revelation of things to come.
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- It's sort of like john was put in a spiritual time-machine and
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- Catapulted into the future.
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- I don't think it was a delorean, but the idea is, he saw the
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- Future because he entered into the eternal realm.
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- And so, as we look at this book, we need to understand that it
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- Was meant to be read aloud and give encouragement to
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- The believers.
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- See, in the first century, they didn't walk around
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- With their own bibles like we have today.
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- So they would read aloud the truths of god, and also, this is
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- Something that will be an encouragement to you and i.
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- Now, i mentioned earlier in my introduction that i have the
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- Password, or the encryption key, or the golden key, if you will,
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- For unlocking the book of revelation.
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- It's in revelation chapter 1, verse 19 when john writes,
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- "write the things that you have seen, the things which are and
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- The things that will take place after this."
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- There's three sections to the book of revelation.
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- Number one, the things that you have seen.
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- This is what is being written about here in chapter 1.
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- The resurrected and glorified christ with all power in heaven
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- And earth, the revealed jesus who is in complete control of
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- All that is about to happen.
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- Then there are the things which are.
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- This is a reference to the seven churches in chapters 2 to 3 that
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- We'll look at where we'll get sort of a flyover, or
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- A chronological look at the church from the early church to
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- The present day.
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- And finally, number three, the things that will happen after
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- These things.
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- After what things?
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- After the church has caught up to meet the lord and what is
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- Called the rapture.
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- We're now living in the "things which are" category.
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- Let's read, now, revelation chapter 1, i'm gonna read verses
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- 1 to 8 out loud because there's a blessing attached to doing
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- That, isn't there?
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- Don't you want to be blessed?
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- Read along with me.
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- "the revelation of jesus christ, which god gave him to show his
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- Servants things which must shortly take place.
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- And he sent and signified it by his angel to his servant john,
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- Who bore witness to the word of god and to the testimony of
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- Jesus christ of all the things he saw.
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- Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this
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- Prophecy and keeps the things that are written in it, for the
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- Time is near.
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- John, to the seven churches who are in asia: grace to you in
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- Peace from him who was, who is, and who is to come, and from the
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- Seven spirits who are before us throne, and from jesus christ
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- The faithful witness, the first born from the dead, and the
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- Ruler over the kings of the earth.
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- And has made us kings and priests to god our father, to
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- Him be glory and dominion forever and ever, amen.
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- Behold, he is coming with clouds, and every eye will see
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- Him, even those who pierced him, and all the tribes of the earth
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- Will mourn because of him.
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- Even so, amen."
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- Finally, verse 8, jesus speaking, "'i am the alpha and
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- The omega, the beginning and the end,' says the lord, 'who is,
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- Who was, and who is to come, the almighty.'"
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- So here's what we learned from what we have just read.
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- Number one, revelation reveals that the events of the end-times
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- Are closely linked together.
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- Verse 1 says these events will shortly take place, or another
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- Translation, "what must speedily happen."
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- We might say, "well, wait, this was written 2000-years-ago," but
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- This is not referring to soonness but the quickness of
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- Execution once there is a beginning.
- 00:14:12.561 --> 00:14:15.030
- Remember, i said it's like dominoes closely linked
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- Together, the idea is, when the first one falls, the others
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- Follow in rapid succession.
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- This is something that, once it begins, will not stop.
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- It will go quickly.
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- The whole machinery of human history will be slipped into
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- High gear to run its fatal course into judgment.
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- Number two, revelation is from jesus christ, revealing himself
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- To us.
- 00:14:43.525 --> 00:14:44.860
- After all, who's a better source on jesus than jesus?
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- This is the lord himself, revealing himself to each of us.
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- Remember the story of those two discouraged disciples on the
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- Road to emmaus after he had been crucified, and christ himself
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- Joined them, but they didn't know jesus was walking
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- With them.
- 00:15:05.147 --> 00:15:06.482
- And we read that he showed them all the things in the old
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- Testament about himself.
- 00:15:09.051 --> 00:15:11.987
- So that's what we have here in revelation.
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- He's described in verse 5 as "jesus christ, the
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- Faithful witness."
- 00:15:17.426 --> 00:15:19.228
- If the book of revelation is nothing else, it's a portrait of
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- Jesus, a selfie of god, if you will, and he's presented as
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- "the faithful witness."
- 00:15:28.437 --> 00:15:30.606
- He's a faithful witness, and man, we need a faithful witness
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- Right now.
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- We need a trustworthy source.
- 00:15:35.077 --> 00:15:37.212
- People are coming unhinged with all the crazy conspiracy
- 00:15:37.212 --> 00:15:42.451
- Theories that are out there online, and all these fanciful,
- 00:15:42.451 --> 00:15:46.388
- Weird ideas about what's going on.
- 00:15:46.388 --> 00:15:48.457
- And sometimes, they take bible truths and hijack them and
- 00:15:48.457 --> 00:15:52.594
- Attach other things to them, and we need to distance ourselves
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- From all of this and with a clear-headed way of approaching
- 00:15:56.398 --> 00:15:59.768
- This, see what the bible says about our future.
- 00:15:59.768 --> 00:16:03.806
- And we have no better source to help us with that than the true
- 00:16:03.806 --> 00:16:07.543
- And faithful witness, jesus christ.
- 00:16:07.543 --> 00:16:10.612
- He always speaks the truth to us, but he always does it
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- In love.
- 00:16:13.949 --> 00:16:15.284
- What a contrast to the fickle love of our culture today.
- 00:16:15.284 --> 00:16:19.188
- Our world loves you when you're young and beautiful.
- 00:16:19.188 --> 00:16:22.157
- In contrast, god loves the plain and aging.
- 00:16:22.157 --> 00:16:25.794
- Our world loves the famous celebrity and breathlessly
- 00:16:25.794 --> 00:16:29.298
- Follows their every move on social media.
- 00:16:29.298 --> 00:16:33.202
- In contrast, god loves the unknown nobody.
- 00:16:33.202 --> 00:16:37.039
- Our world loves the rich and powerful, god loves the poor and
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- The weak.
- 00:16:41.443 --> 00:16:42.845
- God loves all people, he loves ordinary people like you and me,
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- And you are loved, and because you're loved, he cleanses you of
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- Your sins.
- 00:16:51.720 --> 00:16:53.255
- Look at verse 5, "he washed us from our sins in his own blood."
- 00:16:53.255 --> 00:16:58.027
- I want you to notice the past tense of that verse.
- 00:16:58.027 --> 00:17:01.363
- In other words, this has already been done.
- 00:17:01.363 --> 00:17:03.365
- If you're a christian, god has forgiven you for all the wrongs
- 00:17:03.365 --> 00:17:07.336
- That you have done because he loved you, he cleansed you.
- 00:17:07.336 --> 00:17:11.473
- John 3:16 says, "for god so loved the world, he gave his
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- Only begotten son and whoever believes in him should not
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- Perish but have everlasting life."
- 00:17:19.014 --> 00:17:22.051
- We also learned from what we just read that when christ
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- Returns, all the world will know.
- 00:17:24.820 --> 00:17:27.656
- Everyone will know when jesus comes back again, and what we
- 00:17:27.656 --> 00:17:31.160
- Call the "second coming," jesus said, "as the lightning shines
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- From the east of the west, so will the coming of the son of
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- Man be."
- 00:17:38.167 --> 00:17:39.501
- Have you ever seen a lightning storm?
- 00:17:39.501 --> 00:17:40.836
- Kind of hard to miss, right?
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- Lights up the sky, that's what the second coming will be like.
- 00:17:42.237 --> 00:17:46.008
- In verse 7 of revelation 1 says, "every eye will see him, even
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- Those who pierced him."
- 00:17:51.980 --> 00:17:54.183
- So christ is gonna return again in an open way.
- 00:17:54.183 --> 00:17:58.854
- Also, we discover here that revelation gives us the only
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- Description of jesus christ, and it's largely symbolic.
- 00:18:03.325 --> 00:18:08.831
- You know, it's amazing to me that in all the things written
- 00:18:08.831 --> 00:18:11.467
- About jesus, four gospels, all the epistles, could not someone
- 00:18:11.467 --> 00:18:16.305
- Have described what he looked like?
- 00:18:16.305 --> 00:18:18.540
- I mean, we do know certain things about certain bible
- 00:18:18.540 --> 00:18:21.276
- Characters, but we know nothing about the physical appearance
- 00:18:21.276 --> 00:18:25.414
- Of jesus.
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- Was he tall?
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- Was he short?
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- Was his hair dark?
- 00:18:29.485 --> 00:18:30.819
- Was his hair light-colored?
- 00:18:30.819 --> 00:18:32.154
- I can tell you this much, he most likely does not look like
- 00:18:32.154 --> 00:18:34.623
- The more familiar portrayal of him in a lot of the older
- 00:18:34.623 --> 00:18:38.927
- Religious art, with brownish-blonde hair, no, not
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- At all.
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- I'm sure his skin was dark.
- 00:18:45.167 --> 00:18:46.502
- I think his hair was dark.
- 00:18:46.502 --> 00:18:47.836
- He was semitic, but that's not important.
- 00:18:47.836 --> 00:18:50.005
- If it was important, god would have given us a physical
- 00:18:50.005 --> 00:18:53.242
- Description of him.
- 00:18:53.242 --> 00:18:54.576
- But here is the only description of jesus found in the bible,
- 00:18:54.576 --> 00:18:57.880
- Again, it is largely symbolic.
- 00:18:57.880 --> 00:19:00.215
- Revelation 1:14, "his head and his hair were white like wool
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- And white like snow.
- 00:19:04.686 --> 00:19:07.923
- His eyes are like a flame of fire.
- 00:19:07.923 --> 00:19:10.659
- His feet like fine brass as if refined in a furnace, and his
- 00:19:10.659 --> 00:19:14.530
- Voice is as a sound of many waters."
- 00:19:14.530 --> 00:19:18.267
- It mentions his eyes being a flame of fire that can be
- 00:19:18.267 --> 00:19:21.470
- Literally translated, "his eyes shot fire."
- 00:19:21.470 --> 00:19:25.240
- So it appears that jesus is indignant about something.
- 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:29.077
- There's something he's seen that he's not pleased with.
- 00:19:29.077 --> 00:19:32.614
- He sees and knows everything.
- 00:19:32.614 --> 00:19:34.683
- The bible says, "everything is open for the one with whom we
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- Have to do."
- 00:19:38.220 --> 00:19:39.888
- You probably used to think your mother had eyes on the back of
- 00:19:39.888 --> 00:19:42.991
- Her head, right?
- 00:19:42.991 --> 00:19:44.359
- She saw everything.
- 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:45.694
- Jesus sees everything.
- 00:19:45.694 --> 00:19:47.062
- He's aware of everything.
- 00:19:47.062 --> 00:19:49.631
- You know, when you meet someone, you look into their eyes, and
- 00:19:49.631 --> 00:19:53.302
- When a person doesn't want to make eye contact, that's usually
- 00:19:53.302 --> 00:19:55.804
- Maybe an indication of something not being quite right, but jesus
- 00:19:55.804 --> 00:20:00.509
- Is looking at us.
- 00:20:00.509 --> 00:20:01.877
- We read in the bible that jesus looked at matthew and said,
- 00:20:01.877 --> 00:20:05.180
- "follow me."
- 00:20:05.180 --> 00:20:06.515
- We also read that jesus looked at peter after his denial.
- 00:20:06.515 --> 00:20:09.618
- He's looking at us, he's looking at you and his eyes are filled
- 00:20:09.618 --> 00:20:14.256
- With fire.
- 00:20:14.256 --> 00:20:15.991
- Also, as he looks at us, he's telling us something that's very
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- Important, and this is my final point.
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- The book of revelation tells me to not be afraid.
- 00:20:22.931 --> 00:20:26.301
- The book of revelation tells me not to be afraid.
- 00:20:26.301 --> 00:20:28.637
- I know i've said some things that might alarm someone.
- 00:20:28.637 --> 00:20:31.506
- "oh wow, what is the mark of the beast?
- 00:20:31.506 --> 00:20:34.042
- And when is the antichrist gonna show up?
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- And will i have to go through this great tribulation period?"
- 00:20:36.111 --> 00:20:39.314
- Here we have this important word in the first chapter of this
- 00:20:39.314 --> 00:20:43.552
- Great book, "don't be afraid," verse 17.
- 00:20:43.552 --> 00:20:46.655
- "'don't be afraid,' says jesus.
- 00:20:46.655 --> 00:20:48.390
- 'i'm the first and the last.
- 00:20:48.390 --> 00:20:49.858
- I'm he who lives and was dead, and behold, i'm alive
- 00:20:49.858 --> 00:20:52.661
- Forevermore, and i have the keys of hades and death.'"
- 00:20:52.661 --> 00:20:56.765
- Don't be afraid.
- 00:20:56.765 --> 00:20:58.433
- Jesus said, "when you see these things begin to happen, freak
- 00:20:58.433 --> 00:21:01.903
- Out because you're dead!"
- 00:21:01.903 --> 00:21:03.272
- No, he didn't say that, did he?
- 00:21:03.272 --> 00:21:05.507
- He says, "when you see these things begin to happen, look up,
- 00:21:05.507 --> 00:21:08.910
- For your redemption draws near."
- 00:21:08.910 --> 00:21:11.313
- Don't be afraid.
- 00:21:11.313 --> 00:21:12.681
- See, the problem is, we're afraid of the wrong things and
- 00:21:12.681 --> 00:21:16.285
- We're not showing the proper fear of god.
- 00:21:16.285 --> 00:21:19.921
- We're afraid of going to the dentist, or being audited, or
- 00:21:19.921 --> 00:21:24.426
- Someone giving us a hard time, but we don't reverence and
- 00:21:24.426 --> 00:21:27.729
- Fear god.
- 00:21:27.729 --> 00:21:29.097
- The bible says, "the fear of god is the beginning of wisdom."
- 00:21:29.097 --> 00:21:33.268
- Now, when the bible tells us to "fear god," it doesn't mean be
- 00:21:33.268 --> 00:21:36.405
- Afraid of god.
- 00:21:36.405 --> 00:21:37.739
- It means they have reverence for god, have a sense of awe about
- 00:21:37.739 --> 00:21:42.844
- God, have respect for god.
- 00:21:42.844 --> 00:21:46.782
- In fact, the remarkable thing about fearing god is that, when
- 00:21:46.782 --> 00:21:49.351
- You fear god, you fear nothing else.
- 00:21:49.351 --> 00:21:52.220
- But on the other hand, if you do not fear god, you fear
- 00:21:52.220 --> 00:21:55.057
- Everything else.
- 00:21:55.057 --> 00:21:56.758
- Are you paralyzed with fear right now about things that can
- 00:21:56.758 --> 00:21:59.227
- Happen if your life is cut short?
- 00:21:59.227 --> 00:22:01.396
- If you get the coronavirus, or if some other thing happens?
- 00:22:01.396 --> 00:22:05.400
- Listen, don't be afraid, fear god!
- 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:08.036
- And when you fear god, you'll have a confidence in him because
- 00:22:08.036 --> 00:22:11.273
- You're trusting in him.
- 00:22:11.273 --> 00:22:13.208
- David said, "the lord is the strength of my life, of whom
- 00:22:13.208 --> 00:22:17.379
- Then shall i be afraid?"
- 00:22:17.379 --> 00:22:19.981
- When we say, "the lord is the strength of my life," we can
- 00:22:19.981 --> 00:22:22.784
- Then say, "of whom then shall i be afraid?"
- 00:22:22.784 --> 00:22:25.654
- Is the lord the strength of your life, right now?
- 00:22:25.654 --> 00:22:28.657
- If so, don't be afraid.
- 00:22:28.657 --> 00:22:31.927
- But as nonbelievers, i'll tell you what you should be afraid
- 00:22:31.927 --> 00:22:35.497
- Of, you should be afraid of death, and you should be afraid
- 00:22:35.497 --> 00:22:39.501
- Of judgment.
- 00:22:39.501 --> 00:22:41.036
- And these are things that are coming, but if you put your
- 00:22:41.036 --> 00:22:43.605
- Faith in jesus, you do not have to be afraid.
- 00:22:43.605 --> 00:22:47.042
- Don't run from god, run to god, because listen, jesus is coming
- 00:22:47.042 --> 00:22:52.147
- Back again.
- 00:22:52.147 --> 00:22:53.682
- Yes, one day he'll return as king of kings and lord of lords,
- 00:22:53.682 --> 00:22:57.853
- Wearing that crown.
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- But before he'd wear that crown when he returns, he would wear
- 00:22:59.988 --> 00:23:03.258
- A crown of thorns, or he would die on the cross for our sin and
- 00:23:03.258 --> 00:23:07.896
- Suffer and die in our place because, as i said earlier,
- 00:23:07.896 --> 00:23:12.200
- We're all sinners separated from god, but we can be forgiven of
- 00:23:12.200 --> 00:23:17.205
- Our sin and know him in a personal way.
- 00:23:17.205 --> 00:23:26.214
- Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and you have seen
- 00:23:30.419 --> 00:23:34.990
- Your need for jesus christ.
- 00:23:34.990 --> 00:23:37.192
- Jesus christ is the son of god who came from heaven to
- 00:23:37.192 --> 00:23:41.363
- This earth.
- 00:23:41.363 --> 00:23:42.697
- He was born in a manger, he died in a cross, he rose again
- 00:23:42.697 --> 00:23:47.068
- From the dead, why?
- 00:23:47.068 --> 00:23:48.437
- Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
- 00:23:48.437 --> 00:23:51.640
- Listen, i'm not talking about religion.
- 00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:54.009
- I don't wanna be a religious person, i don't think you wanna
- 00:23:54.009 --> 00:23:56.645
- Be one, either.
- 00:23:56.645 --> 00:23:58.013
- I'm talking about relationship with god.
- 00:23:58.013 --> 00:24:01.416
- Jesus, who died and rose again, stands at the door of your life
- 00:24:01.416 --> 00:24:05.620
- And he knocks, and he says if you'll hear his voice and open
- 00:24:05.620 --> 00:24:09.057
- The door, he will come in.
- 00:24:09.057 --> 00:24:10.625
- Question, have you asked jesus christ to come and live
- 00:24:10.625 --> 00:24:14.329
- Inside of you?
- 00:24:14.329 --> 00:24:15.697
- You might say, "well, i think so.
- 00:24:15.697 --> 00:24:17.032
- I'm not sure."
- 00:24:17.032 --> 00:24:18.366
- Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle
- 00:24:18.366 --> 00:24:19.768
- Of the night, do you think you would be aware of it?
- 00:24:19.768 --> 00:24:22.170
- I'm sure you would.
- 00:24:22.170 --> 00:24:23.672
- And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
- 00:24:23.672 --> 00:24:26.842
- You will know.
- 00:24:26.842 --> 00:24:28.210
- And if you don't know, maybe he has not come in, yet.
- 00:24:28.210 --> 00:24:31.680
- He's just a prayer away.
- 00:24:31.680 --> 00:24:33.615
- All you need to do is say, "jesus, i want this relationship
- 00:24:33.615 --> 00:24:37.052
- With you.
- 00:24:37.052 --> 00:24:38.420
- I want you to forgive me of my sin.
- 00:24:38.420 --> 00:24:39.888
- I wanna go to heaven when i die."
- 00:24:39.888 --> 00:24:41.857
- Would you like to do that?
- 00:24:41.857 --> 00:24:43.258
- Would you like christ to come into your life?
- 00:24:43.258 --> 00:24:45.861
- If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me?
- 00:24:45.861 --> 00:24:48.964
- You can pray it out loud, or you can pray it in the quietness of
- 00:24:48.964 --> 00:24:52.534
- Your heart, but this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ
- 00:24:52.534 --> 00:24:56.371
- To be your savior and lord.
- 00:24:56.371 --> 00:24:58.139
- Pray this with me now, "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
- 00:24:58.139 --> 00:25:02.844
- But i know that you're the savior who died on the cross for
- 00:25:02.844 --> 00:25:06.948
- My sin and rose again from the dead.
- 00:25:06.948 --> 00:25:09.217
- Now come into my life.
- 00:25:09.217 --> 00:25:12.120
- I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
- 00:25:12.120 --> 00:25:16.458
- Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering this prayer
- 00:25:16.458 --> 00:25:20.395
- In jesus's name, amen."
- 00:25:20.395 --> 00:25:23.164
- Did you just pray that prayer with me?
- 00:25:23.164 --> 00:25:25.600
- If so, i want you to know, in the authority of scripture, that
- 00:25:25.600 --> 00:25:28.603
- Christ himself has come to live inside of you and i would love
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- Something called "the new believer's bible."
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- Just made to follow jesus.
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- Support the work of "harvest ministries" and request your
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- Copy of "house of david" today at harvest.org/give.
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- Step into david's story and discover how his faith can
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- Strengthen yours.
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- Female announcer: jesus says that "where two or three are
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- Gathered in my name, there i am in the midst of them."
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- We are all different.
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- We have different interests, different personalities,
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- Different upbringings, and different ways we do life.
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- But here we have a deep connection and you are
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- Welcome here.
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- This is harvest.
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