The Things That Own Us | Sunday Message (Pastor Jonathan Laurie)
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Greg Laurie
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🗓️ 26 April 2026
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Summary
There are things that own us—whether obviously or silently. Fears, discontentment, the opinions of others… But Jesus reminds us that God is the One who should own our lives. And when we allow Him to, we find real freedom.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, thanks for listening to the Greg Lorry podcast, a ministry supported by Harvest Partners. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Greg Lorry, encouraging you. |
| 0:08.1 | If you want to find out more about Harvest Ministries and learn more about how to become a Harvest partner, |
| 0:13.1 | just go to Harvest.org. |
| 0:15.5 | Well, why don't you turn in your Bibles to Luke Chapter 12, Luke Chapter 12? |
| 0:20.7 | And my message title is the things that own us. |
| 0:25.3 | The things that own us. And while you turn there, I'll share recently, it was like a year or two ago, |
| 0:34.0 | I was going through my mail and I feel like all my mail is 90% junk mail lately. |
| 0:39.2 | Like it's just tons of junk mail, just trash, trash, you know, credit card incentive, |
| 0:44.0 | whatever it might be. And as I'm going through all this stuff, one letter stuck out, |
| 0:48.3 | and it definitely brought a cold chill down my spine. I looked out a great, no, it wasn't a jury duty summons. |
| 0:56.5 | It wasn't even a bill. It was a super bill. Collections notice. Oh, man, collections. Seriously? |
| 1:05.0 | So I opened this thing up. My wife's not here today, so I'll just say it. my wife opened up a credit card it was a gap credit |
| 1:14.0 | card a gap credit we don't even shop at the gap but she opened up a gap credit card there's an incentive |
| 1:19.5 | that basically offered like 15% off your first purchase like okay great i think we saved 12 |
| 1:24.8 | dollars okay and she paid for it and i think we bought like12. Okay. And she paid for it. And I think we bought like $150 worth of clothing |
| 1:32.1 | like eight years earlier or something. Well, she didn't pay that credit card bill off. And so it |
| 1:39.1 | accumulated and accumulated and accumulated. And when it came to me, it was $1,200. $1,200. Yeah, yeah. And this didn't |
| 1:48.6 | go straight, you know, zero to 60. It went, you know, $100, $300, $600, then finally, $1,200. |
| 1:59.5 | And this is not something that you can just make, like make payments on, like, oh, I'm going to pay |
| 2:03.3 | $40 a month because the APR was 30%, right? This is one of those things where it's like, okay, we just |
| 2:08.9 | got to take two big chunks. And so it was crazy. If we had just paid the minimum, it was so funny, |
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