Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

One of the classic, old CCM songs of days gone by was called Two Hands, by Love Song. The song said “with one hand reach out to Jesus, with the other, bring a friend.” That’s a pretty good description of discipleship in a nutshell. And today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us follow the Lord wholeheartedly, and show others how to do the same. We’ll learn how to embrace the very purpose we’re here: to have fellowship with God, and to bring others into that fellowship.

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A New Beginning is the daily half-hour program hosted by Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. For over 30 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have endeavored to know God and make Him known through media and large-scale evangelism. This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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How should we live in light of what we know about the end times? Pastor Greg Laurie shares the answer as we wrap up our series we’re calling "The Future Is Written."

Notes:

Focus verse: Luke 12

An understanding of End Times teaching will cause us to live Godly lives.

What you believe about End Times will affect the way you live in these times.

If our belief in the imminent return of Christ does not affect our lifestyles, we have completely missed the point.

D.L. Moody was once asked, “If you knew the Lord would return tonight, how would you spend the rest of the day?” Moody replied without hesitation, “I wouldn’t do anything different than I do every day.”

What should I be doing in light of the fact that Jesus could come at any moment?

Read: Luke 12:35–38

We should be shining lights in a dark place.
Luke 12:35

To gird your waist simply meant, “to tighten your belt.”

To have their lamps burning meant, they would have sufficient oil in them.

As the culture gets darker, we need to shine brighter.

We are to be watching for Him.
Luke 12:37

We are to be ready to go.

We should not only be ready but be anxiously awaiting His return.
Luke 12:36

We are not only anxiously waiting but we are also working.
Luke 12:43

We will never share the gospel if we don’t care about lost people.
People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.

The gospel, by its design, is meant to be shared with others.

We can evangelize or fossilize.

Luke 12:45–46

The easiest place to get a hardened heart is in the church.

The easiest place to get a hardened heart is where you hear the Word of God being taught.
The same sun that softens the wax, hardens the clay.

Luke 12:47

Jesus is coming!

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Tonight at Angel Stadium, thousands will be gathered for the Harvest Crusade with Pastor Greg Laurie. Loved ones will hear the powerful gospel message, pressing spiritual questions will be answered, professions of faith will be made, and God will be glorified. Experience this amazing event in person or online.

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Google processes more than 8 ½ billion searches every single day. How do we know? We Google’d it. 8 ½ billion searches, and there are 7 ½ billion people on the planet. A lot of us are curious. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie speaks to one of the most curious issues of the Christian life. How can we discover God’s will for our lives, and how can we align ourselves with His plan? We’ll discover how we can find the fulfillment of living according to God’s purpose.

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A New Beginning is the daily half-hour program hosted by Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. For over 30 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have endeavored to know God and make Him known through media and large-scale evangelism. This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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What’s right isn’t always popular, and what’s popular isn’t always right. It’s easy to go with the flow . . . laugh along with others at an inappropriate joke, remain silent when a co-worker is about to do something unethical. But those who never stand for something eventually will fall for anything. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us put our faith, our relationship with God, front and center in our daily lives. It’s part of walking the rewarding path of discipleship. 

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A New Beginning is the daily half-hour program hosted by Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. For over 30 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have endeavored to know God and make Him known through media and large-scale evangelism. This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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It’s one thing to be ON the team, it’s another to be IN the action. It’s one thing to watch from the bench, it’s another to get in the game. And we hope many will be “in the game” for this weekend’s Harvest Crusade in Anaheim, California. Details at harvest.org. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us chart a course for getting in the game called discipleship. And he begins by commenting on a previous evangelistic outreach that had just concluded. 

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A New Beginning is the daily half-hour program hosted by Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. For over 30 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have endeavored to know God and make Him known through media and large-scale evangelism. This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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Prerequisites. Students certainly know what those are. Those are things that have to come before other things. Before you can take English 201, you have to take English 101. Well today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us explore any prerequisites in making a genuine commitment to Jesus Christ. If heaven hangs in the balance, we want to make sure our hearts and minds are sincere in fully accepting the Lord’s invitation. Today’s message serves as the finale to our studies in Acts. 

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A New Beginning is the daily half-hour program hosted by Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. For over 30 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have endeavored to know God and make Him known through media and large-scale evangelism. This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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Ever drive away from home and had that nagging feeling you might have left the stove on? Or you forgot to lock a door? Or you left a curling iron plugged in? If you don’t go back and check, you start thinking of how things could go horribly wrong. We want to be sure about certain things, don’t we? Well today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us check ourselves when it comes to the sincerity of our faith in Christ. When it comes to matters of eternity, “close enough” . . . isn’t close enough.

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A New Beginning is the daily half-hour program hosted by Greg Laurie, pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Southern California. For over 30 years, Pastor Greg and Harvest Ministries have endeavored to know God and make Him known through media and large-scale evangelism. This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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As we've heard Pastor Greg Laurie say, “What we believe about end times will affect the way we live in these times.” Today, Pastor Jonathan Laurie helps us get a biblical understanding of the Rapture and Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Notes:

Focus verse: Matthew 24:37

1. What Is the Rapture?
1 Thessalonians 4:13–18
 
“The rapture of the church is that future event when Jesus Christ will descend from Heaven to resurrect the bodies of departed believers and to transform and translate the bodies of living believers immediately into His glorious presence in a moment of time, and then escort them to Heaven to live with Him forever.” —Mark Hitchcock
 
The Rapture vs. The Second Coming
 
The Rapture is when Jesus comes for His church.
The Second Coming is when Jesus comes with His church.
 
The Rapture happens before the tribulation.
The Second Coming happens at the end of the tribulation.
 
The Rapture is the removal of believers from the earth as an act of deliverance.
The Second Coming includes unbelievers as an act of judgement.
 
The Rapture will be secret and instant.
The Second Coming will be visible to everyone.
 
The Second Coming will not happen until the rapture happens.
Nothing else needs to happen prophetically for the Rapture to happen.
 
2. Is It Biblical? Why Should We care?
1 Corinthians 15:51–53
 
The Rapture Is Biblical Because:
Accounts of people raptured (Enoch and Elijah).
Civilizations spared from judgement (Sodom & Gomorrah and Nineveh).
Jesus’ own words (Luke 17:34–36).
 
3. How Should We Respond?
1 Thessalonians 5:6–11
 
“What we believe about end times will affect the way we live in these times.” —Pastor Greg Laurie

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In this episode, we revisit a classic crusade message from Pastor Greg Laurie, titled “See You in the Morning.” 

Originally preached at the Harvest Crusade on August 17, 2014 Pastor Greg points out in this message that many people get their notion of Heaven from television or the movies. He calls that “cartoon heaven.” He points out the biblical truth about our heavenly home.

Get a guided tour of life hereafter! And don't miss out on this year's Harvest Crusade, happening July 20, 2024! Get event details here.

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Learn more about Greg Laurie and Harvest Ministries at harvest.org

This podcast is supported by the generosity of our Harvest Partners.

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