Hey there. Thanks for listening to the Greg Laurie podcast, a ministry supported by Harvest Partners. I'm Greg Laurie encouraging you.
If you want to find out more about Harvest Ministries and learn more about how to become a Harvest Partner, just go to harvest.org. The Psalms of David. The Psalms of David. You know, as we look at the Psalms and we look at the story of David's life, we really see that the Psalms are really, it's a journal is what it is.
The Psalms are David's journal. How he was feeling as he went through different things. What he was thinking about.
How he came to certain conclusions and so forth. It's an insight into what was going on inside of David's mind. I believe that David is one of the most absolutely fascinating characters in all of the Bible.
Talk about a guy that's just multifaceted, right? David was a poet. He was a warrior. He was called the man after God's own heart. He was also a murderer and an adulterer.
He was guilty of these things. He was a king, but ultimately he was a man that was quick to repentance and he loved the Lord. And so as you look at all of these things, this just makes up who this character David is and he's known today as the greatest king that Israel ever had. And so today I want to talk to you about David the friend. David the friend. One of the greatest and most well-known friendships in all of history was written about in the pages of the Bible.
And it was between the son of King Saul, Jonathan, who I'm named after, and King David, Jonathan and David. You know friendships, they're one of those things that just make life better, don't they? Friendships make things better.
David's name means beloved and Jonathan's name means God's gift. And I think that Jonathan's friendship is really symbolic of what God's gift is. Friendship is a gift from God.
I also like to remind my wife that I am God's gift to her. But friendships are one of those things that just can make life better, right? It can turn a difficult situation into a positive situation. It can turn something that was an inconvenience into a great memory. And you're like, what were we even going to do?
I don't remember, who cares? But whatever it was, that thing that you said that day was so funny and it just changed our whole perspective on it, right? A good friend can make a bad thing good.
It's amazing. Just last night, my wife, we were laying in bed together. It's okay if we're married.
And that's a Greg Laurie joke right there. And as we were sleeping, I was sleeping. I've had this a few times where I just have these really vivid dreams that something is happening and I spring out of bed.
And lately, it only happens every couple of months, couple times a year. Last night, I had a dream that my son came into our room with a tray full of bugs sitting in these little deli cups inside of like little condiment cups for whatever reason. I think it's because he had a praying mantis in the house earlier inside of one of these cups. I'm not really scared of bugs.
I'm not. But in my dream, he came in and he was showing me and he spilled them all onto my bed while I was laying there. And so I woke up, actually woke up and jumped out of bed. I turned the light on and I'm shouting, Brittany, there's a bunch of bugs in the bed. Come on. We've got to rip the sheets off. And usually she's quick to say, Jonathan, shut up.
No, not really. She says, Jonathan, you're dreaming. Wake up. No, there's no bugs in the bed. There's no spider in the bed. The wall didn't move.
Nothing is happening. Wake up. And I come to the realization, oh, I was dreaming. Then I sheepishly go back to sleep. This time, though, I was out of it.
No, Christopher, he brought bugs in. He spilled them all over the bed. I got her up and out of bed. She was out now and she's like, what?
Oh, my gosh. OK. Then she said, wait, wait, wait. What happened?
No, no, no. Jonathan, go back to sleep. And she went back to bed and I fell very quickly back to sleep. But she texted me about it this morning. She's like, what in the world was that last night? And so we're both laughing. That's a good friend, right? Taking something that's negative, something that was bad, and she turned it into something positive. That was funny.
That was crazy. Please don't ever do that again. But that's a good friend. And that's what I want to talk to you about is friendship.
How much better are our lives because we have friends in our lives? I hope all of us can think back to a time when we really needed somebody. And that person, whoever it might be, maybe it was a loved one, maybe it was a friend, maybe it was, you know, a relative or a spouse, and they were able to say just the right thing to you. They were able to be there for you in your greatest time of need. Maybe it was just putting an arm around you.
What a difference a friend can make. The relationship between Jonathan and David was really quite unique because, well, one was a prince, Jonathan was a prince, the son of King Saul, and David was not. He was a shepherd, right? Usually princes and shepherds did not mix. They didn't have the closest friendships. One was a part of the absolute elite.
One was more kind of the underbelly of society, honestly. Jonathan's father was the current reigning king, Saul of Israel. And we know that Saul was ultimately rejected by God and David was chosen to be the next king of Israel. And while David was waiting to ascend to the throne, Jonathan was his friend and he supported him in this. And that's a big thing because Jonathan, he was supposed to be the next king of Israel. You can be sure that he probably had grand thoughts about what he would do with the kingdom when it came time. And so when this news came to Jonathan, we don't know how he reacted or how he felt, but ultimately what he did was he supported David and he submitted himself to the Lord's will. It meant that Jonathan would no longer be in line for king. Now this really, it sounds like a great premise for like a revenge story and how Jonathan secretly plotted to kill David so that he could actually ascend to the throne and story of espionage and whatever else. But no, it's the premise for one of the greatest friendships ever written about in history.
The reason for this great friendship is because both of them, Jonathan and David, had a strong faith in God. They were successful because they did things differently. When we studied the Sermon on the Mount a few weeks back, we saw in Jesus' teaching time after time after time that he taught us to do things in an upside down way. Things that were countercultural, things that didn't come naturally to us, right? Forgive your enemies, love your enemies, and so forth.
He says a number of things that just don't really seem to line up with what the culture has to say about how we should operate. We are called to do things differently. We are called to do things counterintuitively and even live in a countercultural way. And so we have to remind ourselves that when things don't seem natural, when things don't seem normal as we listen to what God teaches us and calls us to, we are reminded that we can always trust an unknown future to a known God.
God, this doesn't make sense to me. I don't understand why you're calling me to this or you're calling me away from this. But Lord, I trust you and we can always know that we can trust an unknown future to a known God. And so let's look together at 1 Samuel chapter 18, and I've titled this message True Friendship. For each point, I'm going to look at the text, the narrative portion, and then I'll offer a psalm that David wrote to give some insight into what he was thinking. So Psalm chapter 18, starting in verse 1. Let's stop there.
That brings us to point number 1. A good friend is one who recognizes God's will, is one who recognizes God's will. Jonathan recognized God's will. Can I just say it's weird saying my name over and over? In the back of my mind, I'm like, this feels so weird. I feel like I'm talking about myself. I am not talking about myself. I'm talking about Jonathan in the Bible here.
Let's make no mistake. Jonathan recognized God's will and his calling on David's life. That meant Jonathan would not be king.
Now again, did he struggle with this? The fact that he would not be king, he would not be the one to sit on the throne, we don't know for sure. But what we do know and what matters is what he did. And what he did is he submitted to God's will. And not only did Jonathan submit to God's will, he actually strived and made further sacrifices in order for David to be king. How easy would it have been for Jonathan to go with the flow and let Saul kill David?
And that would mean that it would secure Saul's lineage to continue to be on the throne. Oh, yeah, Dad. Yeah, you're asking about David. He's over behind that rock right there. Why don't you just, you know, go take care of him, Dad, and then we can secure, you know, the throne for our family, for the son of Saul.
No, he doesn't do that. He protects David time and time and time again. We read about one such instance in 1 Samuel chapter 20. David and Jonathan and the whole family were supposed to be at a family dinner. Jonathan, excuse me, David at this point had married Saul's daughter, Michael or Michal. And they were supposed to be at the family dinner and Saul had already attempted to kill David a number of times at this point. So David was like, I'm good.
I'm not going to go to family dinner where, you know, my father-in-law is literally trying to kill me. And so he avoided dinner and Saul pressed Jonathan and said, where is David? Where is he?
He's supposed to be here and what's the story? And Jonathan and David had come up with some story why they wouldn't be there. But we read how Saul reacted in 1 Samuel 20. He says this, the Bible tells us this, Saul boiled with rage at Jonathan and said, you stupid son of a whore.
Nice. And he swore at him. Do you think I don't know that you want David to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother? As long as that son of Jesse is alive, you'll never be king. Now go and get him so I can kill him. Jonathan said, but why should he be put to death?
What has he done? And then Saul hurled his spear at Jonathan intending to kill him. So at last Jonathan realized that his father was really determined to kill David.
You thought your family dinners were awkward. For Jonathan, for J-man, it would have been easier for him to just let his dad do what he wanted to do. It would have been actually easier for Jonathan to become king. It would have been easier for him to ascend to his rightful position to become king that his family would be taken care of. He'd have the wealth. He'd have the comfortable lifestyle.
He'd get to make the leadership decisions. Well, G.K. Chesterton once said, a dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it. Jonathan was committed to God, and he knew what God had called him to do.
And he went upstream even though it was the hard thing to do. Multiple times Jonathan had to make this choice to either follow his father Saul's will or to follow God's will. You know, all of us in a similar way will face spiritual forks in the road. We will have to make decisions whether we are going to follow God's will or whether we're going to follow our own will. And many times our own will is going to be the easy one. It's going to be the comfortable one.
It's going to be the one we really want to go after. It could be that we have a great job opportunity out of state and we know we can make some more money. But it means that we're going to have to uproot ourselves and maybe our family and leave our friends and our family and our church that we're plugged into and go move to some other place.
I don't know if there's any good churches out there. In fact, I know if I go and pursue this, I'm going to have to work a whole lot more. And that's ultimately going to hurt my relationship with God. Listen, I'm not saying that's exactly how it is every time when you have a good job opportunity. But when you're faced with that fork in the road and you have to choose your relationship with God versus doing something that you want to do, that's a tough choice at times because what you really want to do is usually the thing that is not going to help you in your relationship with God. Often we want to compromise. It could be that you're trying to make a choice now about continuing a relationship with somebody. It could be that you're a believer and you've kind of been spending time with someone, you're dating someone that's not a believer, they're not a Christian, and you're just thinking, well, maybe I could just win them over and bring them to the Lord. And, oh, yeah, that really works out so well every time, doesn't it? And you feel like you're just in this fork in the road and you're having to choose God's will versus your will.
Listen, I want to tell you this. If you compromise, you will be let down. You will be let down. David said in Psalm 37, delight yourself in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to him and trust in him and he shall bring it to pass. He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light and your justice as the noonday.
Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for him. Do not fret because of him who prospers in this way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass. You may think that it's an either-or proposition.
It's an either-or proposition that if you choose God, you're going to have to marry the ugly guy, live in poverty, move to Africa or some third-world country, and eat bugs, because that's what God's going to call you to do, and you're scared. Probably not. Maybe. He might. You never know.
But probably not. Go ahead and say that. Remember, delight yourself in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart. Jesus said it in Matthew 633.
You've heard it. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. When you put God first and his righteousness, everything else begins to fall into place. And those things that are not part of God's will, they tend to start to become less attractive. Oh, that girl that I really wanted to go after, that job that I thought was going to deliver and satisfy the ultimate, that thing that I was going to compromise my faith over.
You know what? I don't want to do that more. When you put God first, you make the right choices. You've heard it said that if you aim at earth, you get neither heaven or earth.
But if you aim at heaven, you get heaven and earth thrown in as well. It wasn't until I started following the Lord and really made him the cornerstone of my life as a young man that I began to have things fall into place in my own life, the things that I wanted that seemed to just elude me time and time again. I couldn't get what I really wanted, the things that fulfilled me, they eluded me. But when I put my faith in Christ, he gave me the desires of my heart, and he has blessed me time and time and time again. If something makes you forget about God or not want to spend time with him, listen, you need to deny yourself of it no matter how good you may think it is.
Let me say that again. If something makes you forget about God or not want to spend time with him, you need to deny yourself of it no matter how good you may think that it is. Anything and it's wrong, anything out of order can become idolatry. A good thing can become idolatry. It could be that you just want to spend time constantly exercising and working out and pursuing athleticism. Hey, that's great.
It's good to be healthy. But if you're putting that ahead of your relationship with God, it's out of order. It can actually become an idol and hurt you. Put this same thing with money, with your career, with your education, even with your family. If you put these things ahead of your own relationship with God, listen, it is going to hurt you and let you down. Jesus said in Mark 836, For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? And so we see a good friend, a good friendship is comprised of, number one, those who recognize God's will, those who recognize God's will. Jonathan and David were good friends because they were both self-sacrificing young men who sought God's glory above their own. And number two, a good friend is one who builds each other up.
A good friendship is comprised of friends who build each other up. Let's look now at 1 Samuel chapter 23. David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life. David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life, and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in a forest. And then Jonathan, Saul's son, arose and went to David in the woods and strengthened his hand in God.
You might want to underline that. And he said to him, Don't fear, for the hand of Saul my father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you.
Even my father Saul knows that. So the two of them made a covenant before the Lord, and David stayed in the woods, and Jonathan went to his own house. Jonathan knew that what David was going through was very difficult. It was a difficult time for David.
He had been chased away from his wife, from his friends, from his family, from his own home. He was on the run, sleeping in the wilderness, not knowing if Saul was going to pop out from behind a bush somewhere with an army coming to just execute David. There was no consistent source of food or protection, and so Jonathan came to David and encouraged him.
Just his presence alone would have been an encouragement to David. To know that Jonathan, the prince of King Saul, would come and spend time with him and speak to him was an encouragement. Jonathan knew that he would be putting himself in danger when he did this, when he went out into the wilderness and met David where he was.
He knew that he could be guilty of treason or aiding the enemy, and he could be in trouble himself. But again, Jonathan cared more about what God thought than what anybody else did. So Jonathan came to David. Now, he didn't come and give David some pep talk about, David, you can do it. You can do this on your own. I believe that if we strategize and put our heads together, we can make it through this, and we can get you to the throne.
I can pull some strings over here, and we just need to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps. No, he doesn't do that. He doesn't do that. He directed his attention back to God. That's a good friend, a friend who directs your attention back to God. It may have been that Jonathan said something like this to David. You know, David, wasn't it God who brought you and plucked you out of obscurity as a young shepherd boy and brought you to this place today? Wasn't it God who delivered Goliath the giant into your hand and you were able to defeat him? David, if God brought you out of those things and he's delivered you time and time again, will he not do this for you today? You know, something like that.
Just saying the right word at the right time can be such an encouragement. He doesn't try and paint a happy face on the situation. Oh, no, everything's great. Don't worry about it.
You're going to get through this on your own. No, he points him to the Lord. He encouraged his hand in his God. You know, when I was not walking with the Lord, I was not living in a way that pleased God. There was one person in particular in my life that time and time again would just bug me and call me back to the Lord. My brother was one of those people, but there was another guy.
He was a youth pastor of a church down in San Juan Capistrano, about 20 miles south of where we're at today. And he just encouraged me time and time again. He'd call me out. He'd call and try and check in on me, and honestly, he kind of bugged me. I didn't always like answering his calls because I always knew what it was going to be about. I didn't always like to respond to his text messages because I knew that it would just start a dialogue. And a couple months had gone by since the last time we had spoken, and he called me this one week and was like, hey, I want to come and get coffee. Why don't you come down?
We'll spend time. I'm like, oh, I'm busy. I can't do it. I wasn't busy. I could have done it.
I just didn't want to. But he was relentless, and finally he was like, hey, why don't I come up and we can get lunch? You know, we could go out to lunch somewhere. I'll take you out to lunch. I'm like, hey, man, you know what? I only get a 30-minute lunch break, and so I don't have time, and it's not going to work. He's like, dude, I'll come up. I'll come up even for your 30-minute lunch break. And finally, after his relentless pursuit, I agreed.
Okay, fine. And so he met me at work. We drove through, got Taco Bell, and we ate it in my car. And he sat there, and he encouraged me, and he told me what he saw in my life, and he encouraged me that I need to get in church, I need to start reading my Bible, and I need to really start walking with Jesus. He prayed for me, and then he went on his way.
Well, that day, it didn't make a huge impact, but ultimately what happened was I let him in. And you know what? I started going to his little midweek Bible study and hearing him preach, and I started going and spending time with him and his family, and they'd go out in the youth group, and I'd go down with them and spend time with them.
And you know what? That was a friendship that's lasted to this day. That was Pastor Levi Lesko that did that for me. Levi was a good friend. And because I saw that he really wanted a friendship with me and he really cared about me, when I needed a friend the most in the aftermath of my brother going to heaven, Levi was there for me. He was there for my family. And so we all need a friend like that.
We all need to be a friend like that. He strengthened my hand in the Lord. Psalm chapter 27, we read this insight about what David was thinking after Jonathan encouraged him.
He said, the Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked come up against me to eat my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumble and fall. Though an army may encamp around me, my heart shall not fear. Though war may rise against me, in this I will be confident. And then verse 14, wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart.
Wait, I say, on the Lord. A true friend builds you up in the Lord and strengthens your faith when you need it the most. And so a good friend is one who, number one, recognizes God's will. Number two, builds you up.
You build each other up. And number three, a good friend is one who is sacrificial. Number three is sacrificial. Let's look back at 1 Samuel, chapter 18, verses 1 to 4, looking back at this text again. Now when David had finished speaking to Saul, the son of Jonathan was knit to the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.
Saul took him that day and would not let him go home to his father's house anymore. And then Jonathan and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul. And Jonathan took off the royal robe that he was wearing and gave it to David with his armor, even to his sword, and his bow, and his belt. So going back in time a little bit, we see the first time that Jonathan and David first met. It was right after David conquered Goliath.
And Jonathan saw something in David that he really liked. Hey, this is a guy that I could get behind. This guy just conquered this giant in spite of all these armies and all these people being here. This little scrawny kid, this teenager, goes and conquers this massive mountain of man.
That's a friend I'd like to have. Jonathan himself was a brave warrior. A few chapters back in First Samuel, we read how Jonathan and his armor bear snuck into the Philistine camp, and the Lord delivered them into his hand, and he was able to kill 20 men single-handedly. Jonathan, no doubt, was a brave warrior. And no doubt, Jonathan would have made a good king and a good leader, far better than his father Saul had been. But Jonathan was willing to sacrifice his own status and his own future for David and ultimately for the Lord. Taking off his royal robe, taking off his armor, taking off his sword and his bow and his belt symbolized his willingness to sacrifice for his friend David. He puts David's needs and safety and well-being above his own, even though it would ultimately cost him everything. Sacrificial love, that's the best kind of love that we could ever have for someone. It's the greatest love. And it's particularly the type of love we remember on a day like today, on Memorial Day weekend.
We remember the sacrifices of those who went before us, the sacrifices of men and women in uniform who fought for our country and bled and died on the battlefield so that we could be free in America today. I heard an amazing story about a young man, a Navy SEAL named Mikey Monsoor, who was on a rooftop, he was on top of a roof, he was in a rooftop after a gunfight in Ramadi in Iraq. He was with his platoon, they were up there on the roof and they were fighting guys off and they ultimately got cornered.
And as they were cornered, they were calling for reinforcements, trying to get other people to come in to help them and suppress the gunfire, but civilians from the surrounding town blocked the roadways and they were not able to get in. Then the local town mosque got on the microphone and called every able-bodied man, woman and child to come and fight the infidels who were on top of this rooftop and so these guys were hunkered down, taking heavy enemy gunfire and just then, when they thought things couldn't get any worse, Mikey is standing up in the corner over by one of the stairwells that led up to the roof, the only stairwell that led up to the roof and as he's standing there, he gets hit in the chest with a grenade, a live grenade, it hits him in the chest and it bounces and lands on the ground. Now in that moment, Mikey really had three choices. Number one, he could have dove down into that stairwell, couldn't he? And he could have saved himself. Number two, he could have tried to pick it up in like a thing of hot potato and throw it over the side and get rid of it, but he didn't know how much time was left.
Or number three, the third option, which is ultimately what he chose, he yelled out grenade and then he himself dove on top of that grenade. That grenade exploded and he fully absorbed every bit of the shrapnel and the explosion and the danger coming from that grenade and he was able to sacrifice himself for his fellow teammates. That is sacrificial love. That's the type of love that we see demonstrated in what Jesus did for us on the cross.
Jesus said, greater love has no man than this, the one who would lay down his life for his friends. What do these passages and these friendships reveal as we look at Jonathan and David? We see that the love that Jonathan had for David is a pale reflection of the type of love that Jesus has for us. Both Jonathan and David did what? They stripped themselves of their royal privilege.
They laid it down. Jonathan gave up his right to the throne to support David, the Lord's anointed. And what did Jesus do?
He came down from heaven. The Son of God and the King of Kings, he stripped himself of his royal privilege. Philippians 2, 7 says, Jesus made himself of no reputation, taking on the form of a bondservant and coming in the likeness of men. We see that Jonathan and Jesus both displayed selfless love.
Jonathan went against his Father's will, stepped out of his own right to be king in order to support David and his calling. And we see, too, that Jesus demonstrates selfless love throughout his earthly ministry, washing the feet of sinners, forgiving sinners, coming to serve and not to be served. And most of all, Jesus laid his life down for us. In John chapter 10, Jesus said, I am the good shepherd, and the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep.
That's what Jesus did for us. And lastly, both Jonathan and Jesus made covenants. They made covenants. Jonathan made that covenant with David, promising to support him and protect his family and help him get to the throne. And Jesus established with us a covenant through the ultimate sacrifice, which was shedding his blood and his sinless blood on the cross, offering eternal life and forgiveness to all who believe in him. While Jesus hung on the cross, he fulfilled the prophetic words David wrote in Psalm chapter 22, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? When Jesus said these words, it was a moment that theologians believe was when God turned his face away from Jesus for the very first time.
The very first time in all of eternity, the trinity of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit was splintered for a moment when Jesus took on the sin of the world. That is sacrificial love. This is the greatest friend we could ever have, a friend that we do not deserve. As we think about what type of friend we are and what type of friends we have, if you're like myself and you're thinking about Jesus and you're thinking about Jonathan, it's clear we don't have a friend like that in this world. He is quite like that, but that is what Jesus is. Jesus is that type of friend for us.
Jesus is that type of person that lays down his life for us and loves us and sacrifices himself for us, a friend who lays down his life for his friends. Why did Jesus have to die? Jesus had to die because, well, we are sinners.
He died so that we might live. 1 Timothy 1.15 says, Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. And as we close in our service now, we're going to partake together as a church in a time of communion. Communion is a time where we ultimately remember the sacrifice that Jesus made. I can't think of a more appropriate weekend for us to have communion together than Memorial Day weekend, remembering the sacrifices of those whom we have lost and those whom we have loved who made that ultimate sacrifice and ultimately remembering the greatest sacrifice of all, which is Jesus Christ. I want to tell you that as we partake of communion, as our pastors come forward in a few moments to serve all of us at our campuses, communion is something that is reserved for believers only.
Communion is something that we do to remember, again, the sacrifice that Jesus made, but ultimately we're here to proclaim his death until his coming again. Listen, if Jesus was to return today, would you be found righteous? Would you be found in a place that you are able to face Jesus face to face?
You're able to face God face to face. Listen, you wouldn't be able to unless you have the forgiveness that Jesus offers. And so in closing today, I would like to extend that forgiveness to you all. If you haven't put your faith in Jesus Christ, if you haven't accepted him as your Lord and Savior and friend, you can do that right here, right now. Why don't we pray together? Heavenly Father, we love you. Lord, we thank you for this great friend we have in Jesus. What a friend we have in Jesus.
Who laid his life down for us, who showed us how to live, who has healed us, who has redeemed us, who doesn't just give us the hope of heaven, but even gives us the hope of a fulfilled life here on earth. Lord, we know that there's many today who struggle with just spiritual darkness, and they feel far from you, and they deal with anxiety, and they deal with fear, and they live in this spiritual reality, Lord, where demons and the devil are very real, and they're in control of many parts of our culture today. But Lord, we know that as believers, as we put our faith in you, we can be free from this oppression. We can be free from this darkness. We can be free from this anxiety that haunts us.
Lord, we thank you, Jesus, that you came to set the captives free and liberate us from this power of darkness. And so now while our heads are bowed and our eyes are closed and we're praying together, is there anybody here that would say, I want that freedom, I want that forgiveness, I want that liberation to be free from anxiety, to be free from spiritual darkness? Listen, you can have that.
You can have that right here, right now. If you would, just pray this prayer out loud after me. Mean it in your heart, call out to God, ask him to save you.
Pray this now. Dear God, I know that I'm a sinner, but I know that Jesus is the Savior who died on the cross for my sin. And I turn from that sin now from this moment forward. Help me to walk with you and hear from you and to honor you. In Jesus' name I pray, amen, amen. God bless you that prayed just now. That's the best decision that you could ever make. And you've just earned the best friend that you could ever have, and that's Jesus. Hey everybody, thanks for listening to this podcast. To learn more about Harvest Ministries, follow this show and consider supporting it. Just go to harvest.org. And to find out how to know God personally, go to harvest.org and click on Know God.
