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Greg Laurie - You've Got A Friend

May 22, 2025 | 27:29

Greg Laurie - You've Got A Friend
Join Pastor Greg Laurie for a time of encouragement, worship, and Bible study.
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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Greg Laurie - You've Got A Friend | May 22, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg laurie: you hear a compliment,
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  • "oh, thank you."
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  • But that insult, woo, it stays with you.
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  • "looking a little chunky in those jeans, aren't you?"
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  • "what?"
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  • 20 years later you still remember it.
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  • Maybe something a teacher said to you,
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  • Maybe something someone else said to you.
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  • You carry it with you, that insult lingers,
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  • That's why we wanna to build each other up.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • ♪ 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: i wanna just start by giving you a message
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  • About friendship, friendship.
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  • Because we all have friends in some way,
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  • Shape or form.
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  • And why do we need friendship?
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  • Because there is an epidemic of loneliness
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  • That is sweeping our nation.
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  • Social media, it has not made us more sociable,
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  • It's made us less sociable and more dysfunctional.
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  • Seems like we don't even know how to have a conversation with
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  • Each other anymore.
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  • I read that millennials prefer texting over talking in person.
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  • And i think we've forgotten how to interact with one another,
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  • And research reveals that three out
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  • Of every five americans feel lonely.
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  • One source says, quote, "experts have long known that loneliness
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  • And isolation have long ranging effects on the mind and the
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  • Body, ranging from anxiety and depression,
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  • To vulnerability to illness," end quote.
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  • Yet they have found one or two friendships can dramatically
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  • Decrease loneliness.
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  • I read one article on the vox news site that headlined
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  • "why friendships are different
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  • Than any other relationship that we have."
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  • And they stated "12% of americans have no close
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  • Friendships compared with 3% in 1990."
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  • They concluded, "we as a society have atomized."
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  • In other words, we're working, shipping,
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  • And socializing online.
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  • And our phones have become the primary portal through which we
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  • View the outside world.
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  • Wow, that's not good.
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  • Imagine if everyone behaved in real life
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  • Like they behaved on twitter.
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  • People would be yelling at each other on the street
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  • For no good reason.
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  • But this is the problem today, and we see that we're missing
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  • Something because listen, we all need to have living,
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  • Breathing friends, not anonymous people you play video games with
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  • Across the planet.
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  • Not people who comment on your posts,
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  • We need human interaction.
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  • God created you this way, you're not meant to do life alone.
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  • That is why this social experiment of shutting
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  • Everything down not only in our nation but around the world
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  • Has been such a massive failure,
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  • And it's created so many problems.
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  • With our children missing so much of their school,
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  • They shut down schools and parks and beaches and even churches.
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  • None of this was necessary and it
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  • Made an existing problem even worse.
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  • We need each other, we need to talk together,
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  • This is the way god made us.
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  • A friendship is made up of two people committing themselves one
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  • To another, it can only exist where there is a response,
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  • It needs to be reciprocal.
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  • And a true friend can open his heart to another friend and a
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  • Classic example of friendship is found in the story
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  • Of david and jonathan.
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  • 1 samuel 18 verses 1 to 3 describes it.
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  • "after david had finished talking with saul he met
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  • Jonathan, the king's son.
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  • There was an immediate bond between them for jonathan loved
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  • David and jonathan made a solemn pact with david because he loved
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  • Him as he loved himself."
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  • Isn't that a great verse?
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  • There's no closer friendship in the bible than that of david and
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  • Jonathan and what a pair they were.
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  • David, the unknown shepherd boy from the country,
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  • Friends with jonathan, the son of king saul the prince.
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  • So, royalty and a common man.
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  • So if you're taking notes, here's point number one.
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  • We need godly friendships. we need godly friendships.
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  • In the first stage of your life,
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  • You're shaped mostly by your family.
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  • In the second stage, or the rest of your life,
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  • You're shaped largely by your friends.
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  • You become most like the people you spend time with,
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  • "show me your friends and i'll show you your future."
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  • Friends will influence you for better or for worse.
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  • They'll either bring you up or they'll take you down.
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  • Some people bring joy wherever they go,
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  • Others bring joy whenever they go.
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  • Which one are you?
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  • Are you bobby buzzkill or debbie downer?
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  • Are you the one that lights up a room or turns the lights off?
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  • Are you the one that builds others up,
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  • Or you're always dragging them down?
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  • The bible says in proverbs 18:24,
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  • "there are friends that destroy each other,
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  • But a real friend sticks closer than a brother."
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  • Proverbs 22:24 says, "don't befriend angry people or
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  • Associate with hot tempered people."
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  • That's why godly friendships are so important.
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  • There's an old saying, quote,
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  • "fear that man who fears not god."
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  • It's also been said, "he is your friend that pushes you
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  • Closer to god."
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  • He is your friend that pushes you closer to god.
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  • Let me turn that around.
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  • He is not your friend that pulls you away from god.
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  • In psalm 1 it says, "happy as the man that does not walk in
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  • The council of the ungodly or stand in the way of sinners or
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  • Sit in the seat of the scornful.
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  • But his delight is in god's word and in it
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  • He meditates day and night."
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  • But notice, he doesn't let ungodly people influence him.
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  • Now, having said that, you do need to have friendships
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  • With non-believers.
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  • I have some friends that are not christians,
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  • And i've maintained these friendships with them over the
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  • Years and my hope and goal is to move them toward christ,
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  • And we want to influence them.
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  • But your close friends, the ones you confide in,
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  • The ones that you spend the most time with
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  • Should be godly people.
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  • Find a godly friend and be that godly friend for someone else.
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  • But if your friend has no relationship with god and
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  • They're dragging you down, it may be time to part company.
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  • 1 corinthians 15:33 says, "don't be misled,
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  • Bad company corrupts good character."
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  • 2 timothy 2:22, paul says, "flee the evil desires of youth and
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  • Pursue righteousness, faith, and love and peace along with those
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  • That call on the lord out of a pure heart."
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  • Run with godly people that will encourage you,
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  • That will build you up because friends really matter.
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  • Because we influence them and then they influence us.
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  • David had a friend like that in jonathan.
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  • 1 thessalonians 5:11 says, "encourage each other
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  • And build each other up."
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  • It really matters what we say to each other.
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  • I read about a team of researchers in the netherlands
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  • That did an intense study of people's brains.
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  • And here's their conclusion.
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  • Verbal insults hurt, they determined insults linger longer
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  • Than praise or compliments do.
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  • I have a two-part response, number one,
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  • Duh, number two, i think researchers in the netherlands
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  • Have too much time in their hands.
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  • But i think we all know that, right?
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  • You hear a compliment, "oh thank you," but that insult,
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  • Woo, it stays with you.
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  • "looking a little chunky in those jeans, aren't you?"
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  • "what?"
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  • 20 years later you still remember it.
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  • Maybe something a teacher said to you,
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  • Maybe something someone else said to you.
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  • You carry it with you, that insult lingers.
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  • That's why we wanna build each other up.
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  • Number two, true friends support each other
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  • Through thick and thin.
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  • True friends support each other through thick and thin.
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  • They're consistent.
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  • Proverbs 17:17 says, "a friend loves at all times and a brother
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  • Is born for a time of adversity."
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  • A friend can help you through hard times.
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  • Galatians 6:2 says, "bear one another's burdens and so fulfill
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  • The law of christ."
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  • You know, because a real friend will listen to you,
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  • You can open your heart to them and they won't jump down your
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  • Throat or start judging you.
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  • They'll try to hear what you have to say,
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  • And try to help you bear that burden.
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  • James 1:10 says, hey, "be quick to listen,
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  • Slow to speak and slow to get angry."
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  • But sometimes we're the opposite,
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  • We're slow to listen and quick to get angry.
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  • And but two friends can share their burdens with one another.
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  • Ecclesiastes 4:9 says, "two people are better off than one,
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  • They can help each other succeed.
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  • If one person falls, the other can reach out and help,
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  • But someone who falls alone is in real trouble."
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  • I titled this message "you've got a friend."
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  • That's a title of a song written by carol king.
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  • And in the lyric she sings, "you just call out my name,
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  • And you know wherever i am, i'll come running to see you again.
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  • Winter, spring, summer or fall, all you gotta do is call and
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  • I'll be there.
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  • Yes, i will, you've got a friend."
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  • If you've got a friend like that,
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  • That's gold man.
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  • Treasure that person and try to be that friend for someone else,
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  • Because a true friend can suffer with you.
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  • The bible says "weep with those that weep."
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  • And you know, after our son went to be with the lord,
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  • I had friends that just spent time with me.
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  • And honestly, i didn't need a sermon,
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  • I didn't need someone to try to explain it to me,
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  • There was no explanation, but i had friends that were just there
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  • And just loved me and prayed for me and maybe brought me a meal.
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  • And that mattered so much just to be there at a time of need.
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  • So weep with those that weep.
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  • And maybe you have a friend who calls you and says,
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  • "oh man my boyfriend just broke up with me."
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  • Or, "oh i just got fired from my job."
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  • Or, you know, "i just got bad news from a doctor."
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  • "oh man, i'm so sorry."
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  • But the bible doesn't just say, "weep with those that weep."
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  • It says, "rejoice with those that rejoice."
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  • So the same friend calls you back the next day and they say,
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  • "guess what?
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  • I just won the lottery.
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  • I have a hundred million dollars."
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  • Or they say, "oh hey, i just found a new boyfriend.
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  • As a matter of fact, it's your boyfriend."
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  • So wait, what?
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  • It says, "weep with those that weep."
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  • Yeah, i got that.
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  • Rejoice with those that rejoice, not so easy,
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  • Not so easy, because we might think,
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  • "well, that should have happened to me."
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  • Well, back to david and jonathan.
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  • They had this friendship where jonathan could honestly rejoice
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  • Over the success of david.
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  • It's amazing.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: you know, if i get a text on my phone
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  • That says "cathe--"
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  • Cathe: hello.
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  • Greg: "oh hi, how are you?" cathe: hi.
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  • Greg: i'm talking to you and i'm recording the video for
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  • People, so how are you.
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  • Cathe: i'm fine.
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  • Greg: why do you not answer when i call you sometimes?
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  • Cathe: i was working on my podcast.
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  • Greg: okay, thank you love you.
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  • Cathe: okay, bye.
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  • Greg: wait, she didn't say--
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  • Okay, so that's a conversation with my wife.
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  • Obviously, it was spontaneous, but when my wife calls me,
  • 00:12:38.701 --> 00:12:43.405
  • I see her name on the screen.
  • 00:12:43.405 --> 00:12:44.940
  • I answer clearly when she sees my name,
  • 00:12:44.940 --> 00:12:47.409
  • She doesn't always answer by her own admission,
  • 00:12:47.409 --> 00:12:50.546
  • Which you have now seen.
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  • But that's because of relationship you see.
  • 00:12:52.381 --> 00:12:54.650
  • And when we come into a relationship with god,
  • 00:12:54.650 --> 00:12:56.685
  • Understand that you have access into his presence all day and
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  • All night long, 24/7 as they say.
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  • If my son calls, if a member of my family calls a grandkid says,
  • 00:13:04.527 --> 00:13:08.531
  • "hey papa, can you come get me or do this?"
  • 00:13:08.531 --> 00:13:10.966
  • I will make time in my schedule to do things with them,
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  • It's relationship.
  • 00:13:13.869 --> 00:13:15.437
  • And prayer is the privilege of every follower of jesus christ.
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  • With that in mind, why don't we pray more?
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  • I don't know the answer, but we ought to, shouldn't we?
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  • You know, how do you become a child of god?
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  • Well, you're not born a christian.
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  • You have to be born again.
  • 00:13:29.318 --> 00:13:31.220
  • Sometimes people say, "we're all god's children."
  • 00:13:31.220 --> 00:13:33.856
  • Nice sentiment, not actually true.
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  • We're all created by god, we're all loved by god,
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  • But the way you become a child of god
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  • Is through belief in jesus.
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  • The bible says, "for as many as received him,
  • 00:13:45.634 --> 00:13:48.571
  • He gave them the power to become sons of god."
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  • So when you receive christ into your life as your savior and
  • 00:13:52.107 --> 00:13:55.144
  • Lord, you are now his child and you have access into his
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  • Presence 24/7.
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  • And he'll always answer your call.
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  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:14:04.520 --> 00:14:07.456
  • Greg: number three, true friends tell
  • 00:14:07.456 --> 00:14:09.692
  • Each other the truth.
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  • True friends tell each other the truth.
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  • How do you know the difference between an acquaintance
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  • And a friend?
  • 00:14:16.765 --> 00:14:18.100
  • Friends are the ones you call on the phone and tell them what
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  • You're going through, you share a joy with them,
  • 00:14:20.970 --> 00:14:24.340
  • You share a burden with them, you let them into your life.
  • 00:14:24.340 --> 00:14:29.044
  • Proverbs 27:10 says, "the heartfelt council of a friend is
  • 00:14:29.044 --> 00:14:33.549
  • As sweet as perfume."
  • 00:14:33.549 --> 00:14:36.619
  • And a true friend will tell you, "what's up?"
  • 00:14:36.619 --> 00:14:38.220
  • You can bounce things off of them.
  • 00:14:38.220 --> 00:14:40.356
  • You have certain friends that always say,
  • 00:14:40.356 --> 00:14:41.824
  • "oh, it's great, it's great."
  • 00:14:41.824 --> 00:14:43.158
  • Then you have other friends that go,
  • 00:14:43.158 --> 00:14:44.493
  • "that's lame, don't do that."
  • 00:14:44.493 --> 00:14:45.961
  • Maybe you have a new outfit.
  • 00:14:45.961 --> 00:14:47.296
  • "this is my new outfit, i'm gonna wear it".
  • 00:14:47.296 --> 00:14:49.064
  • Your friend says, "no way, don't do it.
  • 00:14:49.064 --> 00:14:51.600
  • You look so stupid in it."
  • 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:53.202
  • "oh, thank you, thank you for telling me that 'cause they're a
  • 00:14:53.202 --> 00:14:57.273
  • True friend."
  • 00:14:57.273 --> 00:14:58.674
  • They'll tell you the truth.
  • 00:14:58.674 --> 00:15:00.142
  • Proverbs 27:6 says, "faithful are the wounds of a friend,
  • 00:15:00.142 --> 00:15:04.013
  • But the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
  • 00:15:04.013 --> 00:15:06.949
  • Open rebuke is better than secret love."
  • 00:15:06.949 --> 00:15:10.686
  • Think about this, faithful are the wounds of a friend.
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  • It just means they tell you the truth.
  • 00:15:13.389 --> 00:15:15.891
  • As oscar wilde once said, "a true friend stabs you
  • 00:15:15.891 --> 00:15:19.528
  • In the front."
  • 00:15:19.528 --> 00:15:21.130
  • See, not in the back, in the front.
  • 00:15:21.130 --> 00:15:23.766
  • A true friend will tell you right to your face.
  • 00:15:23.766 --> 00:15:27.002
  • Because listen, sometimes friendships fracture,
  • 00:15:27.002 --> 00:15:30.906
  • Sometimes problems develop.
  • 00:15:30.906 --> 00:15:33.676
  • That brings me to point number four,
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  • True friends resolve their conflicts
  • 00:15:35.144 --> 00:15:38.380
  • And i'm gonna update that point.
  • 00:15:38.380 --> 00:15:40.249
  • True friends attempt to resolve their conflicts 'cause some
  • 00:15:40.249 --> 00:15:44.720
  • Conflicts can't be resolved.
  • 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:47.756
  • Some people cannot be reconciled with.
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  • You understand what i'm saying?
  • 00:15:50.125 --> 00:15:51.994
  • This is why the bible says, "as much as it is possible,
  • 00:15:51.994 --> 00:15:55.764
  • Live at peace with all men."
  • 00:15:55.764 --> 00:15:57.466
  • Aren't you glad the bible says, "as much as it is possible."
  • 00:15:57.466 --> 00:16:01.737
  • I've had certain people that maybe we had a little fracture
  • 00:16:01.737 --> 00:16:05.040
  • In our friendship, i reach out to them,
  • 00:16:05.040 --> 00:16:06.809
  • No response, nothing, they just don't
  • 00:16:06.809 --> 00:16:09.611
  • Want to be reconciled with.
  • 00:16:09.611 --> 00:16:11.347
  • I don't know what to do with that person.
  • 00:16:11.347 --> 00:16:13.048
  • I pray for them.
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  • Don't be that person, because sometimes we'll hear something
  • 00:16:14.650 --> 00:16:18.354
  • About someone, and we'll talk about them instead
  • 00:16:18.354 --> 00:16:21.256
  • Of talking to them.
  • 00:16:21.256 --> 00:16:23.058
  • See, this is the thing, when you have a conflict,
  • 00:16:23.058 --> 00:16:25.661
  • You don't talk about the person, you talk to the person and first
  • 00:16:25.661 --> 00:16:30.065
  • Of all, find out your information is right.
  • 00:16:30.065 --> 00:16:33.469
  • On so many occasions, i've heard things spread about people that
  • 00:16:33.469 --> 00:16:37.906
  • Are not true, so the entire argument is based on a false
  • 00:16:37.906 --> 00:16:41.643
  • Assumption and if they had merely gone to the person and
  • 00:16:41.643 --> 00:16:45.314
  • Asked them, they would've realized
  • 00:16:45.314 --> 00:16:47.082
  • It's not as they thought.
  • 00:16:47.082 --> 00:16:49.518
  • But they say, "well the bible says if someone's overtaken in a
  • 00:16:49.518 --> 00:16:52.755
  • Fault, you who are spiritual should kick them while they're
  • 00:16:52.755 --> 00:16:55.724
  • Down, spread it on social media."
  • 00:16:55.724 --> 00:16:57.626
  • No, it doesn't say that.
  • 00:16:57.626 --> 00:17:00.062
  • Says, "if a brother or a sister is overtaken in a fault,
  • 00:17:00.062 --> 00:17:02.531
  • You who are spiritual should seek to restore them."
  • 00:17:02.531 --> 00:17:06.001
  • Matthew 18:15, jesus says, "if another believer sins against
  • 00:17:06.001 --> 00:17:09.338
  • You," listen, "go privately and point out the offense.
  • 00:17:09.338 --> 00:17:14.276
  • If the other person listens and confesses,
  • 00:17:14.276 --> 00:17:16.912
  • You've won that person back."
  • 00:17:16.912 --> 00:17:19.581
  • And listen, you're gonna have conflict in marriage.
  • 00:17:19.581 --> 00:17:21.717
  • We'll get into this later.
  • 00:17:21.717 --> 00:17:23.719
  • You're gonna have arguments, i've told you before,
  • 00:17:23.719 --> 00:17:26.555
  • Don't tell me you have irreconcilable differences in
  • 00:17:26.555 --> 00:17:29.358
  • Your marriage.
  • 00:17:29.358 --> 00:17:31.026
  • "i've had irreconcilable differences with my wife for
  • 00:17:31.026 --> 00:17:33.629
  • Almost 50 years."
  • 00:17:33.629 --> 00:17:37.666
  • But are they really irreconcilable,
  • 00:17:37.666 --> 00:17:39.201
  • We're just different, right?
  • 00:17:39.201 --> 00:17:41.470
  • We have to work through these things.
  • 00:17:41.470 --> 00:17:42.871
  • I've had couples come up to me and say,
  • 00:17:42.871 --> 00:17:45.474
  • "we wanna get married, would you perform our wedding?
  • 00:17:45.474 --> 00:17:48.444
  • And i'll say, "well how long have you known each other?"
  • 00:17:48.444 --> 00:17:50.045
  • "oh, six months."
  • 00:17:50.045 --> 00:17:51.380
  • Then i'll ask, have you had an argument yet?
  • 00:17:51.380 --> 00:17:53.082
  • "oh no."
  • 00:17:53.082 --> 00:17:54.750
  • Then they look at each other, all lovey dovey.
  • 00:17:54.750 --> 00:17:57.886
  • "we don't ever argue."
  • 00:17:57.886 --> 00:17:59.221
  • I'll say, "get out, go away. go have a fight."
  • 00:17:59.221 --> 00:18:03.158
  • I don't mean a physical fight.
  • 00:18:03.158 --> 00:18:05.727
  • "go have a conflict and learn how to resolve it because if you
  • 00:18:05.727 --> 00:18:09.531
  • Don't, you're gonna have a tough time in your marriage," right?
  • 00:18:09.531 --> 00:18:12.367
  • Married people, am i right on this?
  • 00:18:12.367 --> 00:18:14.470
  • You know what i'm talking about.
  • 00:18:14.470 --> 00:18:17.439
  • So when you're having a conflict,
  • 00:18:17.439 --> 00:18:18.874
  • Learn to listen.
  • 00:18:18.874 --> 00:18:21.143
  • Proverbs 18:13 says, "only a fool answers a matter before
  • 00:18:21.143 --> 00:18:25.347
  • He's heard it."
  • 00:18:25.347 --> 00:18:26.682
  • Now i know you think your friend or your mate is wrong,
  • 00:18:26.682 --> 00:18:30.886
  • And maybe they are and maybe they aren't.
  • 00:18:30.886 --> 00:18:34.590
  • Or maybe they have a few good points and you have a few good
  • 00:18:34.590 --> 00:18:36.959
  • Points and it's not as black and white as you think it is.
  • 00:18:36.959 --> 00:18:39.895
  • So just for a moment, shut up and listen.
  • 00:18:39.895 --> 00:18:44.967
  • Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger.
  • 00:18:44.967 --> 00:18:48.403
  • Okay, let me just hear.
  • 00:18:48.403 --> 00:18:49.738
  • And don't interrupt them, don't talk over them,
  • 00:18:49.738 --> 00:18:51.907
  • Just listen.
  • 00:18:51.907 --> 00:18:53.242
  • Okay, tell me what the issue is, tell me what your concerns are
  • 00:18:53.242 --> 00:18:56.845
  • And then respond.
  • 00:18:56.845 --> 00:18:59.615
  • And don't use phrases like you know,
  • 00:18:59.615 --> 00:19:00.983
  • "you always," that's childish, you always.
  • 00:19:00.983 --> 00:19:04.686
  • And you start escalating it and the voices start getting louder.
  • 00:19:04.686 --> 00:19:08.891
  • You start insulting them, sometimes the best thing you can
  • 00:19:08.891 --> 00:19:12.628
  • Do when a conflict is starting is walk away for a little bit of
  • 00:19:12.628 --> 00:19:16.064
  • Time if you need to, but learn to resolve it if you can.
  • 00:19:16.064 --> 00:19:20.335
  • Try to find a resolution.
  • 00:19:20.335 --> 00:19:22.371
  • Ephesians 4:26 says, "don't let the sun go down on your anger."
  • 00:19:22.371 --> 00:19:28.310
  • So don't go to sleep mad at each other,
  • 00:19:28.310 --> 00:19:30.379
  • Listen to this, fight to resolve not to win.
  • 00:19:30.379 --> 00:19:34.583
  • Fight to resolve not to win.
  • 00:19:34.583 --> 00:19:36.752
  • If you go in it to win, you lose even if you win.
  • 00:19:36.752 --> 00:19:41.023
  • One last point, jesus is the perfect friend, right?
  • 00:19:41.023 --> 00:19:46.495
  • He is. jesus is the perfect friend.
  • 00:19:46.495 --> 00:19:53.502
  • John 15:15, jesus says, "i no longer call you slaves because a
  • 00:19:53.502 --> 00:19:58.807
  • Master doesn't confide in his slaves.
  • 00:19:58.807 --> 00:20:02.144
  • You are my friends because i've told you everything the father
  • 00:20:02.144 --> 00:20:06.748
  • Has told me."
  • 00:20:06.748 --> 00:20:08.450
  • Come on, what?
  • 00:20:08.450 --> 00:20:10.886
  • Jesus is my friend, jesus is your friend.
  • 00:20:10.886 --> 00:20:15.057
  • He reveals secrets.
  • 00:20:15.057 --> 00:20:16.525
  • See, that's what a friend can do,
  • 00:20:16.525 --> 00:20:17.859
  • I can tell you a secret and you'll keep my secret.
  • 00:20:17.859 --> 00:20:21.964
  • You can tell a secret to jesus.
  • 00:20:21.964 --> 00:20:23.732
  • By the way, he knows it already, so just tell him he knows it.
  • 00:20:23.732 --> 00:20:27.569
  • "but lord, this is something i wanna say to you,
  • 00:20:27.569 --> 00:20:31.406
  • This is something i struggle with.
  • 00:20:31.406 --> 00:20:33.342
  • This is something that's hard for me."
  • 00:20:33.342 --> 00:20:34.843
  • Call upon him.
  • 00:20:34.843 --> 00:20:36.311
  • Ah, but he'll reveal his secrets to you.
  • 00:20:36.311 --> 00:20:39.715
  • The bible says "the secret of the lord
  • 00:20:39.715 --> 00:20:42.684
  • Is with those that fear him."
  • 00:20:42.684 --> 00:20:45.020
  • He'll revealed things to you from his word
  • 00:20:45.020 --> 00:20:48.056
  • That other people don't know.
  • 00:20:48.056 --> 00:20:49.658
  • Non-believers who maybe are the most educated people you've ever
  • 00:20:49.658 --> 00:20:52.894
  • Met with degrees hanging on their wall,
  • 00:20:52.894 --> 00:20:55.297
  • They don't know what you know because you have a friendship
  • 00:20:55.297 --> 00:20:58.834
  • With god.
  • 00:20:58.834 --> 00:21:00.535
  • And god has revealed things to you because you are his child,
  • 00:21:00.535 --> 00:21:04.773
  • But you are also his friend.
  • 00:21:04.773 --> 00:21:07.843
  • But listen to this, there's a caveat here.
  • 00:21:07.843 --> 00:21:10.312
  • If we're gonna call jesus our friend,
  • 00:21:10.312 --> 00:21:13.382
  • There are some responsibilities that go with that relationship.
  • 00:21:13.382 --> 00:21:17.819
  • Jesus said in john 15:14, "you are my friends
  • 00:21:17.819 --> 00:21:21.089
  • If you do what i command."
  • 00:21:21.089 --> 00:21:24.760
  • You're my friends if you do what i command.
  • 00:21:24.760 --> 00:21:27.162
  • So if you're really a friend of god,
  • 00:21:27.162 --> 00:21:28.930
  • You'll obey him continually.
  • 00:21:28.930 --> 00:21:31.099
  • Now, that doesn't mean you're perfect.
  • 00:21:31.099 --> 00:21:33.335
  • 'cause you're gonna trip up, you're gonna fall,
  • 00:21:33.335 --> 00:21:35.003
  • You're gonna fail, okay and we know that.
  • 00:21:35.003 --> 00:21:37.139
  • But it means, well i fail, but i'm gonna get up and recommit
  • 00:21:37.139 --> 00:21:40.075
  • Myself to the lord again, it's sort of like getting married.
  • 00:21:40.075 --> 00:21:43.345
  • You say i do on your wedding day,
  • 00:21:43.345 --> 00:21:46.315
  • But then you say, i do for every day and week and month that
  • 00:21:46.315 --> 00:21:50.752
  • Follows again, and again, and again,
  • 00:21:50.752 --> 00:21:53.088
  • You honor that commitment.
  • 00:21:53.088 --> 00:21:54.956
  • And in the same way, you come to the lord each and every day and
  • 00:21:54.956 --> 00:21:57.726
  • Say, "lord, i fall short, i need your help.
  • 00:21:57.726 --> 00:22:00.729
  • Fill me with your holy spirit.
  • 00:22:00.729 --> 00:22:03.131
  • But i wanna be your friend and do what you command me."
  • 00:22:03.131 --> 00:22:06.001
  • "you are my friends."
  • 00:22:06.001 --> 00:22:07.336
  • Jesus says, "if you do whatever i command."
  • 00:22:07.336 --> 00:22:09.938
  • He did not say, "you are my friends,
  • 00:22:09.938 --> 00:22:11.673
  • If you do whatever you agree with."
  • 00:22:11.673 --> 00:22:16.178
  • Sometimes people say, "well, i don't agree
  • 00:22:16.178 --> 00:22:17.512
  • With this verse in the bible."
  • 00:22:17.512 --> 00:22:19.214
  • Oh, interesting, you're wrong, you are.
  • 00:22:19.214 --> 00:22:24.086
  • "well, i just don't know in this modern culture in which--"
  • 00:22:24.086 --> 00:22:26.355
  • Shut up, you're wrong.
  • 00:22:26.355 --> 00:22:29.091
  • Bible doesn't change.
  • 00:22:29.091 --> 00:22:31.226
  • We don't wanna adapt the bible to our culture,
  • 00:22:31.226 --> 00:22:33.428
  • We need to adapt our culture to the bible, see,
  • 00:22:33.428 --> 00:22:35.831
  • That's the problem.
  • 00:22:35.831 --> 00:22:41.703
  • "you are my friends, if you do whatsoever i command you."
  • 00:22:41.703 --> 00:22:44.973
  • Or he doesn't say, "you are my friends,
  • 00:22:44.973 --> 00:22:47.342
  • If you do whatever you find easy or whatever
  • 00:22:47.342 --> 00:22:50.912
  • You're comfortable with."
  • 00:22:50.912 --> 00:22:52.247
  • Look i'll be honest with you, there are things in the bible
  • 00:22:52.247 --> 00:22:54.349
  • I'm not comfortable with.
  • 00:22:54.349 --> 00:22:56.852
  • I'm not comfortable with loving enemies.
  • 00:22:56.852 --> 00:23:00.088
  • I'm not comfortable with turning the other cheek.
  • 00:23:00.088 --> 00:23:03.658
  • I'm not comfortable with some things god tells me to do,
  • 00:23:03.658 --> 00:23:06.895
  • But this is what the bible says, and that's a standard
  • 00:23:06.895 --> 00:23:10.632
  • We are to seek to live by.
  • 00:23:10.632 --> 00:23:12.868
  • You are my friend says jesus if you do whatever i command you.
  • 00:23:12.868 --> 00:23:17.606
  • Do you have this friendship with god?
  • 00:23:17.606 --> 00:23:20.442
  • God longs for this friendship with you.
  • 00:23:20.442 --> 00:23:22.644
  • He wants to be your friend, what an offer but as i said earlier,
  • 00:23:22.644 --> 00:23:27.816
  • There can only be a friendship when there's give and take,
  • 00:23:27.816 --> 00:23:30.419
  • When we reciprocate and say, "yes,
  • 00:23:30.419 --> 00:23:32.587
  • I want that friendship with you, lord.
  • 00:23:32.587 --> 00:23:34.956
  • I want to walk with you and know you in a personal way."
  • 00:23:34.956 --> 00:23:40.262
  • And that can happen for each and every one of us.
  • 00:23:40.262 --> 00:23:43.365
  • Jesus has proven this friendship because he said,
  • 00:23:43.365 --> 00:23:47.335
  • "greater love has no man than this and he laid down his life
  • 00:23:47.335 --> 00:23:50.739
  • For his friends."
  • 00:23:50.739 --> 00:23:52.841
  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: maybe god has spoken to your heart and you have seen
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  • Your need for jesus christ.
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  • Jesus christ is the son of god who came
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  • From heaven to this earth.
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  • He was born in a manger, he died on a cross,
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  • He rose again from the dead, why?
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  • Because he loves you and he wants a relationship with you.
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  • Listen, i'm not talking about religion,
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  • I don't wanna be a religious person,
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  • I don't think you wanna be one either.
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  • I'm talking about relationship with god.
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  • Jesus who died and rose again stands at the door of your life
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  • And he knocks and he says, if you'll hear his voice and open
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  • The door, he will come in.
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  • Question, have you asked jesus christ to come
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  • And live inside of you?
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  • You might say, "well i think so, i'm not sure."
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  • Hey, if someone moved into your house in the middle of the
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  • Night, do you think you would be aware of it?
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  • I'm sure you would.
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  • And in the same way, if christ has come to live inside of you,
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  • You will know.
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  • And if you don't know, maybe he has not come in yet.
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  • He's just a prayer away.
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  • All you need to do is say, "jesus,
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  • I want this relationship with you,
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  • I want you to forgive me of my sin,
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  • I wanna go to heaven when i die."
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  • Would you like to do that?
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  • Would you like christ to come into your life?
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  • If so, why don't you just pray this simple prayer with me.
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  • You can pray it out loud or you can pray it in the quietness of
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  • Your heart.
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  • But this is a prayer where you're asking jesus christ to be
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  • Your savior and lord.
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  • Pray this with me now.
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  • "lord jesus, i know that i'm a sinner,
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  • But i know that you're the savior,
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  • Who died on the cross for my sin and rose again from the dead.
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  • Now come into my life.
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  • I choose to follow you from this moment forward.
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  • Thank you for hearing this prayer and answering this
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  • Prayer, in jesus's name, amen."
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  • Did you just pray that prayer with me?
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  • If so, i want you to know on the authority of scripture that
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  • Christ himself has come to live inside of you,
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  • And i would love to send to you at no charge
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  • The new believers' bible.
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  • It's a very friendly translation of the new testament you'll find
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  • Very understandable, and it's filled with hundreds of notes
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  • That i wrote that will encourage you in this commitment you've
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  • Just made to follow jesus.
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  • And let me be the first to say to you,
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  • Congratulations and welcome to the family of god.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Greg: greg laurie here.
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  • You know, at harvest ministries we're committing to reaching
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  • Unexpected people in unexpected places with an
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  • Unexpected message.
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  • And thanks to your financial support, we've been able to
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  • Touch people all over the world with the hope of jesus christ.
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  • Your gifts today not only help reach millions across the
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  • Country through this television program,
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  • They also help us to bring hope to people in their biggest need.
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  • Whether through our evangelistic events or our relief efforts,
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  • Together we've been able to minister to so many people
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  • Devastated by the fires in lahaina on the island of maui.
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  • And also, your support has helped us partner to bring
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  • Medical help in the ongoing conflict in israel.
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  • So i'm asking you today to continue to support this
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  • Ministry so we can do everything possible to fulfill the
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  • Great commission.
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  • Let's do this together, and let me say in advance,
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  • Thank you and god bless you.
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