Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

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 is one our most requested of the year.

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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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In Genesis 2, we get a close look at the events that occurred in the Garden of Eden. We get to focus on the relationship between God and man. Pastor Greg Laurie shares valuable points from this book today. 

Notes:

Genesis 2/Genesis 3

Elohim is the appropriate word to portray God as the Majestic Creator.

Yahweh is the personal name God uses when dealing with humanity.

Read: Genesis 2:7–9

God created man and breathed life into him. The word, “breathed,” is warmly personal.

Genesis 2:7

Eden means, “delight.” God placed man in a real place called, Eden. Eden was hand-made by God Himself, untouched by sin and death, perfect.

Adam was tasked with naming the animals.

Genesis 2:20

Read: Genesis 2:18, 21–25

God created woman and brought her to the man.

The word, “helper,” does not imply inferiority; it’s the same term God uses to describe Himself as a helper to His people.

God establishes the family and the home: A man and a woman.

To have a successful marriage, you must both leave other relationships.

Genesis 2:24

To have a successful marriage, the couple must cleave together. Cleave means, “to glue, to cling.”

Marriage is a picture of Christ and the church!

1 Corinthians 7:32–33

Our greatest needs are not fulfilled in marriage but in Jesus!

Read: Genesis 3:1–9

The devil undermines in four ways.

Satan questioned God’s Word.

“Has God, indeed, said?”

Satan added to God’s Word.

Genesis 3:3

God never said, “Neither shall you touch it.”

Satan questioned God’s love.

Satan denied God’s Word.

Satan substituted his own lie.

Every temptation can be resisted and overcome.

James 1:12

Genesis 3:8

God wanted Adam to admit to and confess his sin.

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In this special interview, Pastor Greg Laurie speaks with film star, Dennis Quaid. They discuss faith, Hollywood, Quaid's gospel album, and more.

You’ll also get to hear Quaid perform a few songs from his album. It's a not-to-be-missed interview!

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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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It may come as a surprise to some . . . it may be welcome confirmation for others . . . but believers can get depressed. Yes, there are numerous Scriptures about joy and contentment, but we’re humans living in mortal bodies, in challenging times. Well today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie focuses on a depressing time in the life of the great prophet Elijah, and highlights a number of practical principles to help us in our times of challenge. You might want to take some notes.

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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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Trying to live a godly life in an ungodly world can seem like we’re trying to walk up a downward escalator. The culture is trying to drag believers right into a quagmire of hopeless humanism and angry atheism. But God has a plan. Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie helps us revisit one of the most exciting stories of the Old Testament when a single prophet of God confronts 850 feckless false prophets and watches God’s plan unfold

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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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Sometimes, it can seem as though we’re swimming against the current in our life of faith. If it isn’t opposition and even persecution for what we believe, it’s challenges in health, or finances, or relationships. How do we get through? How have others made it? Today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie points to the Apostle Paul as our inspiration. We’re in the book of Acts considering the trial upon trial Paul faced, but the word of encouragement that pulled him through.

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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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Many people feel they just can’t function in the morning without their cup of coffee. But, long ago, coffee met with grumpy, nearly global opposition for hundreds of years! (They were grumpy ‘cause they hadn’t had their coffee). People oppose lots of things, but then come to embrace them warmly. And today on A NEW BEGINNING, Pastor Greg Laurie points out how we need to realize that people need the message we share, and we need to find the courage to share it even in the face of opposition.

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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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Pastor Greg Laurie introduces a fresh series, "It All Starts Here," where we explore the Book of Genesis. In this first message, he focuses on God's purpose for us while helping us understand other topics, such as the creation of the world. 

Notes:

Genesis 1

We are created on purpose and for a purpose.

God has a plan and purpose for you.

Acts 13:36

We need to know and fulfill our purpose.

Romans 8:28

Genesis means, “beginning.”

The book of Genesis begins with God.

Genesis 1:1

Since God created the heavens and the Earth,

He is more than adequate to meet your needs.

Genesis is the ground floor and foundation of the entire Bible.

Without it, the rest of the Bible would be incomprehensible.

Read: Genesis 1:1–10

God is triune, meaning, three-in-one—eternally existing in three persons.

Genesis 3:22; Genesis 11:6

The Trinity consists of three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

God is the Creator of all things!

Created (Bara) means, “to create something out of nothing.”

Only God can create; that is, call into existence that which had no existence.

God has always existed.

He is self-existent. He has existed from the beginning.

Revelation 1:8

God created all things in six days!

Genesis gives a broad-stroked painting of creation, not a photograph.

The focus of Genesis is not to show us “how the heavens go,”

but “how to go to Heaven.”

I don’t believe in the Bible because Science proves it true;

I believe in the science that the Bible proves is true!

God created mankind in His image.

Read: Genesis 1:26–28

After each thing God created, He said, “It is good.”

When God created man, He said, “It is very good.”

Genesis 1:31

Read: Genesis 2:1–3

God did not rest because He was tired; He rested because He was done!

The word rest in Hebrew is Shabath and it means, “cease.”

“Cast all your care on Him, for He cares for you!”

1 Peter 5:7

The God who created you will bear it for you.

“If you will come to Him, He will turn your night into day with a word. He will reorder your broken life with a word. He will bring form out of chaos with a word. It’s His specialty.”

“The Lord remembers us, and He will bless us.”

Psalm 115:12

The meaning of life is to know and bring glory to God!

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They say, in any major city these days, there are cameras watching you . . . as you walk, as you drive. Security cameras in front of a market, or built into a nearby ATM. Maybe a webcam on the top of a building or someone’s video door bell. What about our friends and loved ones in Heaven? Are they watching what’s going on here on earth? Pastor Greg Laurie address that question and several others today on A NEW BEGINNING as he presents a glimpse of life inside our eternal home.

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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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