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Harvest with Pastor Greg Laurie | Tell Someone - Why Share The Gospel? | June 28, 2022
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- Greg Laurie: Welcome to "Harvest with Greg Laurie."
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- This TV show is all about helping you get to know God
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- better because God loves you, and God has a plan for you, and
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- God wants to transform your life, and he's told us
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- everything you need to know about him and life in general in
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- this book, the Bible, the user's manual of life.
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- So we're gonna be talking about what the Bible says
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- and what God wants to do in your life.
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- Again, welcome, and God bless you.
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- ♪ This is the day, ♪
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- ♪ the day when life begins. ♪
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- ♪ This is the day, ♪
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- ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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- Greg: God has put his people in the culture
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- to influence it, to make a difference.
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- God is not calling us as believers to isolate,
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- but rather to infiltrate, to influence.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,
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- baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the
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- Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things
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- that I have commanded you, and lo, I am with
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- you, even to the end of the age."
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: I'm in the Hoboken Terminal here in New Jersey, and
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- this is one of the cities, states I've lived in during my
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- childhood because my mom, well, she had this habit of getting
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- married and divorced a lot, seven times in total.
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- So I lived in Summit, New Jersey; I lived in Hawaii, I
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- lived in California, so I had this turbulent
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- childhood, so I had to grow up fast.
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- In many ways, I had to become a parent to my mother, and by the
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- ripe old age of 17, I felt like I was 70.
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- I tried pretty much everything this culture has to offer to
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- make one supposedly happy, and I was empty inside, and I was
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- desperately searching for meaning and purpose in my life,
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- and on my high school campus in Newport Beach, California, I
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- came upon a Bible study of Christians and sat down close
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- enough to hear what they were saying but not so close that
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- they would think I was joining up.
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- I sort of eavesdropped, and I ended up hearing, for the first
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- time in my life, the gospel, and I believed that message,
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- and as a result, I asked Jesus Christ to
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- come into my life, and he changed it.
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- It wasn't long after that, that I realized I had to tell
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- someone about what God had done for me.
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- The Bible says, "If any man be in Christ, he's
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- an altogether different kind of person.
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- The old things have passed away.
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- Behold, everything becomes fresh and new."
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- And then, one day, as a new Christian, I read a passage in
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- scripture that's known as the Great Commission.
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- Have you heard that?
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- It's when Jesus says, "Go into all the world and preach the
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- gospel to every living creature."
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- Yes, I'm talking about evangelism, and that's a word
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- that makes a lot of Christians cringe because we think, "Oh,
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- no, you mean actually go up to a complete stranger
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- and talk about my relationship with God?
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- I don't wanna do that." So you know what happens?
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- The Great Commission, as we call it, becomes the great omission.
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- Let me tell you something that might
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- surprise you, but I believe it's true.
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- I think to not share my faith as a
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- follower of Jesus Christ can be a sin.
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- You say, "Now, Greg, you're going too far there.
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- It's not a sin." Wait, though.
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- There are sins of commission and omission, right?
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- A sin of commission is when you do something you should not do.
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- Listen, a sin of omission is when you don't do something you
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- should do, and the Bible says, "To him that knows to do good
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- and does not do it, to him, it is sin."
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- Let's say that you were walking along the beach,
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- and there was someone out there drowning in the
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- ocean, and you just kept walking.
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- You didn't call for help.
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- You didn't call 9-1-1.
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- You just kept walking. Would that be wrong?
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- That would be criminal, really.
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- And in the same way, it's even worse when we think of the fact
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- that, every day, we walk by people that are drowning in
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- their sin, and we don't even take a break in our little
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- schedule to engage them with a message of the gospel.
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- Did you know that 95% of all Christians have
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- never led another person to Christ?
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- A very small percentage even attempt to
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- engage people with the gospel message.
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- So, listen, I wanna help you to change
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- that if that's the case in your life.
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- Let me say something that may also surprise you.
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- I believe evangelism can be fun. "'Fun,' you say?"
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- Yes, fun, because it's exciting to be used by God.
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- And you know what?
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- When God's looking for someone to use, he's not
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- looking for a qualified person.
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- He's looking for an available person.
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- God's not looking for ability.
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- He's looking for availability.
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- God doesn't call the qualified.
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- Listen, he qualifies the called.
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- That means that God can use you.
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- He can use anyone to start talking to others about Jesus
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- Christ, but we've gotta get started, and that's what I wanna
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- talk to you in this series about how you can engage people, how
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- you can reach people, and, yes, how you can lead
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- people to Jesus Christ and experience some
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- of the greatest joy you've ever had in this life.
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- Jesus said, "There is joy or happiness in heaven every time a
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- lost sinner believes, every time a sinner comes to repentance."
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- So if there's happiness in heaven over a person believing,
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- there can certainly be happiness on earth as well.
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- Let's discover together how we can find the joy of sharing our
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- faith and how we can see others come to know Jesus Christ.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: Sharing your faith can be an exciting experience.
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- Telling others about Jesus can be an adventure.
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- Leading people to Jesus can be one of the greatest
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- joys you've ever know, and dare I say it?
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- Being used by God can be fun.
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- That's right, fun, not a mere drudgery, not mere duty.
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- It's a joy.
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- It's a privilege.
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- It's an opportunity.
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- And listen to this, we're told in Psalm 126:6, "Those who go
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- out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of
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- joy, carrying their sheaves with them."
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- And the idea, that is, I go there, and I sow my little
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- gospel seeds in the lives of people, and periodically the
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- Lord will allow me to see a person come to Christ, and that
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- brings great joy, not just on earth, but check this out.
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- Every time a lost person believes in
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- Jesus, there is applause in heaven.
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- The Bible says that there is joy in the presence of the angels
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- over every sinner that comes to Jesus Christ.
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- And next to knowing Christ myself, to me, the
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- greatest joy I know is seeing others come to
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- Christ and then growing in their faith.
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- John said, "I have no greater joy than to know my
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- children are walking in the truth."
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- Such a joy.
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- And then we are also told by Jesus himself, "It's more
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- blessed to give than it is to receive."
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- By the way, the word "blessed" could be translated, "happy."
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- It's a happier thing to give than it is to receive.
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- Now, you tell that to a kid, and they won't believe it.
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- "No, to receive is happier."
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- But as you get older, you discover
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- the joy of giving, don't you?
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- And it is a joy to give out the gospel to other people, and
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- here's the interesting thing about how God does this.
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- He seems to go out of his way to find the least
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- qualified person to do this through.
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- The last person you would ever expect to be a
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- spokesman for him is the one that God will choose.
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- You know, I never wanted to be a public speaker.
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- Can you believe me when I tell you that?
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- My sole aspiration in life as a kid was to be a cartoonist, a
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- graphic designer, and my backup plan was start a pet shop.
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- I just figured if that graphic thing
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- doesn't work, I like animals.
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- You know, hey, I was only a kid, right?
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- So when God started opening doors for me to speak publicly,
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- I was the least likely person to ever do this, but the reason I
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- started doing it, because, before, I didn't have anything
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- to say, but now I do, and you do too.
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- You say, "Oh, God couldn't use someone like me."
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- God called Moses, and here's what Moses said.
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- This just sounds like somethin' one of us would say today.
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- Exodus 4, "Moses pleaded with the Lord,
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- 'Lord, I'm not very good with words.
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- I get tongue-tied, and my words get tangled.'
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- God said, 'Now go, and I'll be with you as you speak.
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- I'll instruct you in what to say.'
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- Moses says, 'Please, Lord, send someone else.'"
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- And look at the people God used, how flawed they were.
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- Noah got drunk.
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- Abraham--man, he was just old.
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- Jacob was a liar.
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- Peter denied Christ.
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- The disciples fell asleep while praying and largely
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- abandoned him in his moment of need.
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- Timothy had an ulcer, and Lazarus was dead.
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- So what's your excuse?
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- See, God can use you.
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- I mean, we just offer these excuses.
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- They're not reasons. You know what an excuse is?
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- It's a fancy lie dressed up for dinner.
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- It's what we offer when we don't wanna do something.
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- There are no good reasons.
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- So listen to this, God is not looking for ability.
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- He's looking for availability.
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- God does not call the qualified.
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- He qualifies the called. That means you.
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- That means me. That means us.
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- We can be used by God.
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- And let me say somethin' else, we not only should fulfill the
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- Great Commission because Christ has commanded us to and because
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- people need to hear the gospel, but we should fulfill the Great
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- Commission so we don't stagnate spiritually.
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- Let me say something else that might surprise you coming from
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- a pastor, there can come a moment when, actually, you don't
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- need to go to even another Bible study.
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- You don't need to read another Christian book.
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- You don't need to attend another worship service.
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- I'm not suggesting you cut back on those things.
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- I'm just saying maybe there'll be a point in your life where
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- you don't need to do that more as much as you need
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- an outlet for the truth God has given you.
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- See, the problem is, if you're always taking in
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- and you're never giving out, you're gonna
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- reach a state of spiritual stagnation.
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- This would be like a person saying, "I eat all the time,
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- and I feel listless and lethargic."
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- It's like, "Dude, you need some exercise."
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- And then, the same could be said of Christians.
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- We're just feeding on the Word of God, taking in,
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- taking in, taking in, never giving out.
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- That needs to change, or we might
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- find ourself in trouble spiritually.
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- See, God does not give us his truth to hoard.
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- Do we have any hoarders listening right now?
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- I would say I'm a micro-hoarder.
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- I like to keep stuff.
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- If it's a drawing from my children or my
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- grandchildren, I save 'em and put 'em up my wall.
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- I save a lot of things.
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- My wife, she's the opposite. She throws everything away.
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- One time, she was tryin' to put me in the trash can.
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- I resisted, but, you know, she throws stuff away.
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- But then there are people who are serious hoarders.
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- I saw a program on TV about a person.
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- They had so much stuff.
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- It was floor-to-ceiling stuff in their home.
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- Usually these people have a lot of cats too.
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- I don't know what the connection is.
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- Listen, ten cats, it's too many, okay, just--
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- five cat--really, one cat's too many.
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- Okay, but, anyway, and then they hoard all this stuff, and in one
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- situation, they had to come in with some serious fumigation and
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- other things to clean this home up because food was rotting and
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- stuff was piling up, and that can be a picture of a Christian,
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- a well-fed Bible student who loves the Lord, takin' in,
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- takin' in, takin' in or, putting it
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- another way, hoarding and hoarding.
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- God doesn't give you this truth for you to hoard.
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- He gives you this truth to share.
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- The other day, we were out having lunch with my son,
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- Jonathan, his wife, Brittni, and their kids, and so
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- I gave to each of them a bag of chips.
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- Christopher was enjoying his chips immensely.
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- [munching sounds] And then his dad said,
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- "Christopher, can I have one of your chips?"
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- What I love about kids is they don't mask their feelings.
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- An adult would say, "Sure," but all the while,
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- we'd be saying, "I hate this, I hate this.
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- Here, you can have a chip."
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- Christopher's like--[groans]
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- He, like, furrows his little brow, [groans].
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- "Christopher," Jonathan says, "Look at me, buddy.
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- Give me a chip."
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- [groans] It's just like torture for--"No, no."
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- He has a whole bag. The bag's half as big as he is.
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- "No."
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- Finally reaches in, pulls out the most pathetic little chip.
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- It's all broken.
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- "Here, Dad."
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- Jonathan says, "Oh, give me a bigger chip."
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- [moans] And he finally pulls out--
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- You know, we're like that. We just mask it.
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- Jesus said, "Go into all the world and preach
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- the gospel," but it starts with a burden.
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- Effective sharing starts with caring.
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- Greg: Let me ask you a question,
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- and be honest in your answer.
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- Do you really care about people
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- that don't know Jesus Christ yet?
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- I know, the automatic Christian answer is "Oh, yes,
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- I care about them," but do we really?
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- Because, if we did, why do we not engage them
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- more with the message of the gospel?
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- Far too often, I think, we regard
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- nonbelievers as the enemy.
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- They're not the enemy.
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- In fact, the Bible says that they're bound
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- by the enemy--that's the devil--who has
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- blinded their eyes so they will not believe.
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- No, we should not see them as enemies.
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- We should see them as people that need Jesus.
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- In fact, I think we need to get mad.
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- I don't mean get mad at non-Christians.
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- In fact, I've seen sometimes believers yell
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- at people that don't know the Lord.
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- Now, that's not gonna reach anybody.
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- I think we need to get mad at the sin that binds them.
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- You know, the Bible tells us in the book of Acts, the 17th
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- chapter, that the apostle Paul had his spirit stirred when he
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- saw that the whole city of Athens was given over to
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- idolatry, and that phrase that's used there in the
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- Bible, "His spirit was stirred," could be
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- translated, he was righteously indignant.
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- I think we need to get angry, righteously, at the trap people
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- find themselves in, angry enough to take action.
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- So let me ask you this question, are you a bridge, or are you a
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- barrier to people coming to Christ?
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- Are you a stepping stone, or are you a stumbling block?
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- It's time for us, as Christians, to infiltrate this world with
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- the gospel as opposed to isolating.
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- You know, sometimes Christians wanna isolate into a subculture,
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- and, you know, we eat in Christian restaurants, and we
- 00:15:32.675 --> 00:15:35.544
- buy clothes made by Christian people, and we talk about
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- Christian things, and that's all great, but there has to be a
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- point where we go out and engage nonbelievers.
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- Don't forget that Jesus himself was
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- called the "friend of sinners."
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- How can I ever reach someone if I don't engage them?
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- So let's do everything we can to tell someone.
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- Let's all get busy doing that right away.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: I told the story all around the world 'cause I've had
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- the opportunity to preach the gospel.
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- I find it resonates with every kind
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- of person, every kind of culture.
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- Men get it. Women get it.
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- Children get it. Everyone understands it.
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- It's such a straightforward story, and if God were to ever
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- take a selfie, this is what he would look like.
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- And in this story, Jesus says, "God is like a father who has
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- two sons, and when one of the sons goes astray, he
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- desperately misses that son and longs for his return."
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- You know the story of the boy.
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- Comes to his dad, demanding his portion of the inheritance.
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- He effectively says, "Dad, you know,
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- you're living way too long.
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- I'm tired of waitin' for you to die.
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- Just give me my part of the inheritance now, and let me go.
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- And, amazingly, the dad acquiesces and gives the boy
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- what he requests, and off that kid goes to a place far away,
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- ending up with hookers and booze and partying and all that kind
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- of stuff, and after a while, that boy spends all of his
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- money, and all of his friends that he had are gone with the
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- money, and he's actually feeding pigs, which is not a very kosher
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- thing for a good Jewish boy to do, and he actually is thinking,
- 00:17:22.317 --> 00:17:26.722
- "Maybe I will eat the food that I'm feeding the pigs."
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- And then it dawns on him, "This is stupid.
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- This is ridiculous.
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- I'm gonna go back to my father, and I'm gonna say, 'Father,
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- I'm no longer worthy to be called your son.
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- Just take me on as a hired hand.'"
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- So back home the boy goes.
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- Now, the guy was probably--he was probably older.
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- Maybe his body was a little bowed with age.
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- Maybe his body was ravaged with the bad
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- choices he had made in his lifestyle.
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- He's going back home.
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- Meanwhile, back at the ranch--it's almost like the
- 00:17:54.750 --> 00:17:56.985
- camera moves now from the boy, and we come to the father.
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- This is called "The Parable of the Prodigal Son," but it could
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- just as easily be called "The Parable of the Loving Father,"
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- for it's a story of how God loves us.
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- Back at the ranch, there's Dad sitting on the front porch,
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- maybe in his rocking chair, missing his boy.
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- Periodically, he'd get up, walk into his son's room,
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- look at all the things hangin' on the wall,
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- say, "I miss that rascal of a kid.
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- I wish he'd come home." Maybe it's been years.
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- Maybe it's been decades. We don't know.
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- The story doesn't say, but he would
- 00:18:28.183 --> 00:18:30.018
- just long for that boy's return.
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- He would sit out there and wait.
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- One day, he's sittin' out there on the porch, and he sees a
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- familiar figure making his way down the path to the home.
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- It's his boy, and the father is so excited.
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- He bolts out of his chair and runs to his son and throws his
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- arms around him and kisses him and says, "Rejoice with me.
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- This is my son, who was dead and is alive again."
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- The boy didn't even get to finish his speech,
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- "Father, I'm no longer worthy to be called your--"
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- "Yeah, forget that, you're my son.
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- You've always been my son. Welcome home."
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- That's a picture of God. And here's the amazing thing.
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- In this culture, it was considered
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- undignified for an older man to run,
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- not to mention the fact it's harder for an older man to run.
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- I know this from personal experience,
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- 'cause I've tried running.
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- You know, I can walk for a long distance, and I'm fine.
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- And I'll say, "I'm gonna just do a little jog."
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- I'm walking really fast.
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- People tell me I walk really fast.
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- But then I, "Let's do a jog."
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- I just--the moment I do this, I hate life.
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- Just, everything's shaking and just misery, immediately misery.
- 00:19:33.482 --> 00:19:38.587
- "Oh, I hate--" go back to walking again.
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- I have people that love to run, "Oh, I just had a good run.
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- What a great run." What are you, crazy?
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- You had a great--"Oh, crazy run, great run.
- 00:19:48.230 --> 00:19:51.934
- Man, the endorphins were released."
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- I've never had a single endorphin released in
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- my life doing any kind of exercise.
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- I have had the release of
- 00:19:58.507 --> 00:19:59.841
- endorphins eating hamburgers, however.
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- It's undignified, fathers,
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- older gentlemen did not run in this culture.
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- If Jesus had not said this, we would
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- not even dare to suggest it.
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- Jesus compares the Father in heaven to a father who misses
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- his son so badly, he's willing to lose his dignity, if you
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- will, to get to his son as quickly as possible.
- 00:20:23.398 --> 00:20:27.035
- So here's my question for you, if that father was willing to
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- lose his dignity to engage his son, are you willing
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- to lose yours to engage a nonbeliever?
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- Greg: So here's my question for you, are you willing to lose
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- your dignity, so to speak, to engage someone with the gospel?
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- Are you willing to leave your comfort zone?
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- Are you willing to, well, go into all the world?
- 00:20:50.158 --> 00:20:53.262
- Go into all your world and share the gospel?
- 00:20:53.262 --> 00:20:56.398
- You know, the apostle Paul said, "We warn everyone we meet, and
- 00:20:56.398 --> 00:21:00.369
- we teach everyone we can all that we know
- 00:21:00.369 --> 00:21:02.838
- about Jesus Christ," listen, "so we can bring
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- them to full maturity in Christ."
- 00:21:05.474 --> 00:21:08.110
- See, that really is the Great Commission.
- 00:21:08.110 --> 00:21:10.545
- Jesus says, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel,
- 00:21:10.545 --> 00:21:13.548
- making disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
- 00:21:13.548 --> 00:21:17.052
- the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit."
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- So our objective, as Christians, is to, by God's grace, lead
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- people to Jesus and then help them get on their feet
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- spiritually, get them growing, help them reach maturity, and
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- then go and do it again, and do it again, and do it again, and
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- do it for the rest of your life and encourage those you led to
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- the Lord to do the same thing, and through that
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- reproduction, we can reach the world, but
- 00:21:39.574 --> 00:21:43.345
- you've gotta start with your world.
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- You know, sometimes, people say, "I feel called by God, and I
- 00:21:45.614 --> 00:21:48.517
- wanna cross the sea for Jesus as a missionary."
- 00:21:48.517 --> 00:21:51.720
- Hey, why don't you start by crossing the street?
- 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.956
- All around you is a mission field.
- 00:21:54.956 --> 00:21:57.259
- Jesus said, "Lift up your eyes and look.
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- The fields are white to harvest."
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- But then he says, "The laborers are few."
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- God is looking for someone to labor in the harvest.
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- He's looking for someone like you.
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- Let's not be guilty of the sin of omission because
- 00:22:10.572 --> 00:22:14.910
- the Bible tells us "To him that knows to do
- 00:22:14.910 --> 00:22:16.745
- good and does not do it, to him it is sin."
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- Let's obey the Lord, but understand also, as we obey the
- 00:22:19.247 --> 00:22:22.784
- Lord, he will bless us, and there's joy as I shared earlier
- 00:22:22.784 --> 00:22:27.289
- in sharing your faith, so let's get on with this.
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- In fact, why don't we just pray together
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- that God will help us to do our part?
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- Let's all pray.
- 00:22:36.131 --> 00:22:37.466
- Father, we acknowledge that we have not always taken
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- advantage of the opportunities that come our
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- way, sometimes that are dropped in our lap.
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- Help us to, as Jesus said, "Lift up our eyes and see the harvest.
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- Help us to see people as you see them.
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- Help us to care enough to share.
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- Use us, Lord, we pray, to bring others into your kingdom.
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- We ask this in Jesus's name, amen.
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- Hey, thanks for joining us for message
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- one in the "Tell Someone" series.
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- I'm confident, if you'll get to the end of the series and take
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- these biblical principles and put 'em into action, that you
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- will lead other people to Jesus Christ.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Greg: So the mission is clear, we're commanded to go
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- into all the world and preach the gospel to share the good
- 00:23:28.150 --> 00:23:31.920
- news anytime, anywhere, so go to your family, go to your
- 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:37.058
- neighborhood, go to your workplace, go to
- 00:23:37.058 --> 00:23:39.728
- your sphere of influence, go and tell someone.
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- Greg: Maybe God has spoken to your heart, and
- 00:23:50.572 --> 00:23:53.708
- you have seen your need for Jesus Christ.
- 00:23:53.708 --> 00:23:57.012
- Jesus Christ is the Son of God
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- who came from heaven to this earth.
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- He was born in a manger.
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- 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 talkin' about religion.
- 00:24:11.726 --> 00:24:13.929
- I don't wanna be a religious person.
- 00:24:13.929 --> 00:24:15.764
- I don't think you wanna be one either.
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- I'm talkin' 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
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- voice and open the door, he will come in.
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- Question, have you asked Jesus Christ
- 00:24:30.745 --> 00:24:33.081
- to come and live inside of you?
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- You might say, "Well, I think so.
- 00:24:34.850 --> 00:24:36.184
- I'm not sure."
- 00:24:36.184 --> 00:24:37.519
- Hey, if someone moved into your house in the
- 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:38.987
- middle of the 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
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- to live inside of you, 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 could pray it out loud, or you can pray
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- it in the quietness of your heart.
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- But this is a prayer where you're asking
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- Jesus Christ to be your Savior and Lord.
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- Pray this with me now, "Lord Jesus, I know that I'm a sinner,
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- but I know that you're the Savior, who died on the cross
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- 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
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- and answering this prayer.
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- 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 in 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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- something called the New Believer's 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
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- of notes that I wrote that will encourage you in
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- this commitment you've just made to follow Jesus.
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- Let me send that to you at no charge, and let me
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- be the first to say to you, congratulations
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- and welcome to the family of God.
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- announcer: From the best-selling author of "Johnny
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- Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon" and "Steve
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- Laurie's new book, titled "Lennon, Dylan, Alice, & Jesus,"
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- which traces the rise, fall, and sometimes redemption
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- journeys of famous rock gods who are brought to their knees
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- and look up to finally meet the one true God.
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- but also of sweet salvation in the
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- ♪ This is the day, ♪
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- ♪ the day when life begins. ♪♪
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